Waiting For Godot

Waiting for Godot         Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot is a mid 20th century frivol belonging to the genre of the Theatre of the Absurd, and focusing on the dispositionlessness of the mankind condition. The idea of the absurd is a major(ip) theme in Waiting for Godot and is embodied in its principal(prenominal) characters. Estragon (Gogo) and Vladimir (Didi), taken together, incorporate the universal man confront the world. Beckett uses each character to show the limitations and absurdity of different aspects of sympathetic existence. The pair of Vladimir and Estragon exemplifies, in the metaphysical level, the dichotomy of mans character in body and mind, and illustrates the limitations and senselessness of these parts of human character.

        In Waiting for Godot, Vladimir and Estragon represent the mind/body wave-particle duality of the human being, a fundamental principle in horse opera philosophy. Becketts intention is to demonstrate by means of these characters the limitations of the mind and body, taken singly or together, which prevent us from coping with our finite being. In Waiting for Godot Vladimir represents the mind, while Estragon symbolizes the body. The pair of Vladimir and Estragon represent a sort of Everyman, by embodying complementary aspects of human nature: Vladimir the intellectual side of man, Estragon the corporeal (Webb, 27).



Throughout the paper Beckett presented Vladimir as the intellectual who is concerned with various philosophical and theological problems, while Estargon is more concerned with bodily pleasures and materialistic gains. only these two tramps seem to be irregular individuals or an imperfect pair in contrast to the Western idea of human existence, which views man as able to achieve perfection through the cooperation of the two aspects of human nature.

        Beckett used different symbols to reinforce the sense of the mind/body duality in the Vladimir-Estragon pair. Their names apprise their personalities Vladimir, for example, means...

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