While I was reading Waiting for Godot, I noticed myself dozing off and becoming frustrated waiting for something to happen in the story. Nothing ever did and Godot never showed up. This feeling of being tired of the same thing, wanted to end the misery of Estragon and Vladimir, and the feeling of time looping around the same subject is exactly how Estragon and Bladimir felt while in the story.
The purpose of the looping text and boring dialogue is to put us in the shoes of the main characters. They were supposedly in Hell and reading this 55 pages of boring nothingness was a version of our own Hell. This could just be the author's interpretation of what waiting to be saved from Hell feels like. Though no one will ever live to tell how it really happens, the author used his own imagination and brought us as close to how it will be as possible. Although it was boring and nothing ended up happening, the author was genius in writing this because it really makes you stop and think about what Hell feels like without being a bloody, violent Hell.
Though there isn't much to discuss plot-wise in this story, the gloominess is what is the most important part to the message of the story.
Questions:
1. I would like to know if my take on the story is accurate and Godot is said to be a God creature?
2. If plot has some significant point to it, what would it be?
Katie, I totally agree that Godot could be God. There are several references to the Bible throughout the play. Vladimir and Estragon seem to be damned souls. I think the point of the play was to emphasize the meaningless of life. One line from Vladimir says something along the lines that we might as well be born into a grave. I think that this perpetual despair is very characteristic of absurdism in the Post Modernism era.
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