Waiting Fo Death – Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Death By Stephanie Melo Pabon Analysis on Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is a play starred by Vladimir and tarragon, two men who be to sp leftover their days in a province road talking, wandering and blathering while waiting for a person they call Godot. This Godot neer appears in the story precisely they both talk about him -her, it, it is difficult to define- at the corresponding season that they look for things to do while waiting.During the two days they spend in that place just in the company of a dead tree, they have two encounters with two other men Pozzo, an aggressive that seems to be the master of the other the other piece of music is Lucky, a terribly sick and tired man that looks uniform a mistreated donkey. The last character that appears is a male child who brings messages to Vladimir and Estragon saying that he -because the boy calls him he- is not coming today and tomorrow, for sure.The setting, as I said before, is a country road with just one mound and a dead tree -a willow like they esteem it is called-, e precisething leading to a hopeless atmosphere that accompanies their endless waiting. I think reading Beckett is a in truth difficult as he takes modernism to the highest level. He really expresses stories with plot and characters through his own commission of thinking. I liked reading the play in spite of my dislike for reading plays I do not like to read the setting and the characters actions and movements in such an explicit way.This clip I was totally delighted by the characters dialogues. It was interesting to see how galore(postnominal) thoughts about their conversations, the objects they use in the story, the setting, and their physical and ad hominem description, actually arose. I read the play two times and watched one staging since the first time I had many different thoughts and topics to interpret the characters and situations they be in, these interpretation s are the ones I will be telling. The chief(prenominal) characters Estragon and Vladimir are, to me, the absurd depiction of the body and mental capacity.They both are the same person a pitiful man -Mr. Albert could be his name like the boy called Vladimir at the end of both Act I and II. Estragon is the body as he is the one with the need of relaxationing and eating. He always wants to sleep but Vladimir does not let him do it and he always wants to eat, for instance when he asks for the chicken swot up Pozzo leaves after eating in Act I, and in Act II when Pozzo falls and asks for attention but Estragon only thinks about asking him for food to eat.Vladimir is the mind as he is the most luculent one he remembers everything while Estragon never does, and he says Estragon he would be a heap of bones without him to show the dependence on each(prenominal) other. Also, at the beginning of the two Acts, Vladimir asks Estragon if he was shell again and next he assures him that if he had been with him he would not have been beaten as he is the one that can make him stop of doing things he should not do.Although they say the idea of them together is to contradict and abuse each other, they both get along well they communicate and seem to be friends. Estragon says they always find something to croak them the bear onion they exist they reason about many topics but Vladimir, the mind, is very healthy whereas Estragon is very tired all the time. The other two characters, Pozzo and Lucky, are the opposite Pozzo, the very healthy but cruel man who is the slaver of Lucky. He is ambitious to the intense of being greedy he says he has professional worries, and about beauty and grace.Lucky is the tired and sick mind of a deep person that was never satisfied with material things and I say he is rich because of the scene when Estragon asks for the chicken bones Pozzo is leaving but Pozzo says he has to ask Lucky because he is the owner. Estragon does that and Lucky d oes not answer, so Pozzo says it is ok if he takes the bones but at the same time he thinks something is wrong as he had not seen him refuse a bone before. This case means to me Luckys tiredness of always wanting everything for him, even the wastes, and Pozzos surprise for his change.The family between Pozzo and Estragon is the main topic when Vladimir and Estragon ask why Lucky does not do anything and never put down the bags he carries, and Pozzos answer is that he used to be very kind, helpful and entertaining but now he is killing me, he also says Lucky wants to impress him by doing a job is not for him. Here the mind is sick Pozzo is healthy but he is dying because of his mind while Lucky cannot bare any longer all that burden and thrust Pozzo has put on him to control him and not to let him think and decide his life is better without international pleasures and material worries.These all four characters are making an absurd portrayal of what life is. Estragon and his make do for the boots to conniption and how in the second act when he tries a pair of boots that were not of his, he says they fit and then he complains saying they are too big it is the way they refers to our constant complains of the life we go and the circumstances, bad or good, we do not want to be in, as Vladimir says There is a man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.This is another way to say the metaphor about the life each one has to carry about with a cross to every man his little cross till he dies and is forgotten. They both also talk about the searching of meaning when they say multitude speak always to themselves trying to determine where are these corpses and skeletons come from. They wonder if it is necessary to think or if they could have lived without it, as it was not enough just to live.Pozzo and Lucky are depicting the way parliamentary procedure is always more concerned about material things, sometimes having as priority money and th e unremarkable and superficial aspects rather than let the minds fly using the imagination and thinking beyond the banalities of the world. Also, with this two characters the mathematical operation of good deeds is visible when in Act II Pozzo falls and ask for help but Estragon prefers not to help him if he does not give anything to him in return.Vladimir compares what a tiger does to help his congeners without hesitating. Finally, as they spend their days in the same place and just looking for things to do to deliver the time, it is just an ironic criticism to the routine the life becomes at some point to the repetitive start, attempts, give up, and start again. This is just a cycle people live while for the end of the night to come, for the end of the daily routine to finish, for the death to come. When it comes they will be saved.