WAITING FOR GODOT

There are many theories about what or who Godot is in Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot', a play wrote in the late '40s. Some believe that Godot has political ties commenting on the lack of support and consideration that the government actually gives its citizens. Most believe that Godot symbolizes God. Some think it represents life in general or possibly death. I personally think that it is commenting on religious issues, referencing the absurdity of both life and death. It's a tribute to how ridiculous and absurd it is to spend your life just waiting around for God, following a religion, expecting something to come from life that is more than what you provide for yourself and in the end we're all really just waiting for death.

The two men stand by a tree waiting. They get sick of waiting and want to leave. They don't. They fight, they threaten, they joke, they contemplate suicide. They're visited by two others, one with a rope around his neck acting on the commands of the one in control of his leash. Nothing ever happens. They speak in riddles, and nonsense. All while waiting for Godot -- who never shows. Throughout they discuss that they themselves don't even know who Godot is and how he will probably never come. They do this day in and day out, over and over and over and over and over again.

Humanity spends their life living in the ways that they believe are how "God' would want them to. They fight for their Lord, they preach, they participate in much of the same things Vladimir and Estragon do just over the period of their life and in the end they expect to be face to face with their Lord but are only faced with death. Absurdity.