Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot - God Isnt Coming Essays -- Waitin

waiting for Godot - God Isnt Coming Waiting for Godot, Samuel Becketts liveential master beak, for slightly odd reason has captured the minds of millions of readers, artists, and critics earthly concernwide, joining them every last(predicate) in an attempt to render the play. Beckett has told them not to read boththing into his work, yet he does not stop them. by chance he recognizes the world quality of bringing personal experiences and such to the piece of art, and interpreting it through such colored lenses. Hundreds of theories are expounded, all of them rightly and n sensation of them wrong. A play is only what you bring to it, in a subconscious connection between you and the playwright. One popular interpretation of Waiting for Godot relates it to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, as related in the parvenue Testiment. There are significant clues and evidence to make this connection, and as the master(prenominal) tenant of the Existentialist movement, which grew ou t and of WWII experiences of not only Beckett, but all the other great Existentialists, Camus, Sartre, and Ianesco. It also developed using the writings of Hegal, Schopenhaur, and Nitchze. The main(prenominal) philosophy of Existentialism can be summed up in one controversy - How can one reconcile ones existence with a valet de chambre devoid of order, norms, or divine guidance. Thus, there is an implied aspect of religion and the quizzical there of in any Existential piece, as this is a vista of human society that helps us deal with the Existential Dilemma. First and for the first time is the title itself. Waiting for Godot. Who IS Godot? VLADIMIR (Softly) Has he a beard, Mr. Godot? BOY Yes Sir. VLADIMIR Fair or... (he hesitates)...or opaque? BOY I think its white, Sir. (p. 59 A) Look at any portr... ...that believe in the divinity of the self, and I believe Beckett, by this statement and others in other plays, feels that way as well. Godot will never exhibition up. Estragon and Vladimir mustiness find him for themselves, rather than letting him come to them. They must take action and make the world around them exist, a world with more than a dead or dying tree. This is the Existential solution. To exist in a world devoid of reason, one must take a leak that reason, else be doomed to endless years of waiting for enlightenment to come, which it never will, appearing only on the horizon of tomorrows forever. Beckett is telling us to bind up off our butts and exist. God isnt coming, and if you want to wait forever for him be our guest, but the rest of us are going to be human BE-ings. Work CitedBeckett, Samuel. The Complete Dramatic Works. London Faber and Faber, 1990.