Waiting for Godot Act II
The characters in Waiting for Godot are bizarre. Estragon and Vladimir have some weird conversations. Estragon adds nothing to a conversation. I think Estragon suffers from some type of daily amnesia like the kind Drew Barrymore had in the movie 50 First Dates. The act starts off with the following night at around the same time. Estragon literally does not remember what he did last night. Now Vladimir has a little more sense than Estragon, but he still doesn’t have much sense. After Estragon and Vladimir get bored of talking to each other, Vladimir starts walking around in a casual manner. He sees that the tree has leaves now and kind of flips out. Vladimir can think more deeply than Estragon, he has some questions to ask; but has no one to answer.
Lucky and Pozzo seem to be a pair of the most random characters ever. I don’t know the point of them. I didn’t see one thing they added to the story. Estragon doesn’t even remember them. Pozzo is this grumpy man that seems to only care about himself. He is about to sell his slave Lucky and Lucky has been enslaved by Pozzo for years. I’d think Pozzo would feel some kind of remorse.
Godot is a character but he doesn’t even appear in the story; he is only talked about. I guess he is some important person because Vladimir and Estragon wait so long for him. Godot owns a farm, and that messenger boy works on the farm. The boy revealed that Godot beats his brother for no good reason. What kind of person does that?
My point for writing about the characters: this story makes no sense to me. Vlad and Estragon sit around for two nights for absolutely nothing. It’s really confusing to me. Maybe there is some kind of significance that they are waiting for nothing…but I don’t see any.
What's the significance? Is there any? What's up with Godot? Is Estragon on this planet?
I really liked your blog and your questions. I wish I could be more of a help but I am lost of all the significance as well. However, I feel Godot offers hope, and keeps the play moving forward, for without him they would actually be physically stuck in time, not just mentally. As far as Estragon goes, I feel the part of this character is merely to keep Vladmir in place at the tree, waiting for Godot, for without Estragon Vladimir's character would show little to none development over the play.
ReplyDeleteThis may be far out, but one idea I had is that pozzo and lucky some how represent the relationship between Vlad and Est in a way that one had more power over the other. Also without Pozzo there could be no lucky, and without Vlad there could be no Est, and vise versa. Pozzo controls lucky but without him what would he do? Lucky couldn't do anything at all without pozzo commanding him. I like what you said that Est is there to keep Vlad at the tree, just like lucky is there to keep pozzo to have authority over something.
DeleteGodot could be the representation of how some people feel about God. (there was some reference to scripture in act 1) Here they wait for Godot and they have messangers for Godot, Godot himself never appears. Muck like there are prophets but God himself never apears. Aslo it mentions that they will be punished if they don't wait, Similar to how religion claims God will punish those who do not obey.