Discussion Paper #7 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is a play without meaning. Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo) go on for pages with meaningless jibber-jabber. The setting is an obscure place with no distinguishable characteristics; there is only a tree and a road to decorate the mundane landscape. We have no knowledge of where they are in particular; we are oblivious to what time, year, or day it is. The addition of …showed first 75 words of 657 total…

…showed last 75 words of 657 total…their problems for them, instead of taking the initiative and exerting the maximum effort on their own behalf. It’s a comfort zone – the “if God wanted things to be different, he would have done it by now” attitude. Once again, Beckett isn’t striking at Christianity itself; he’s attacking the subsequent attitude that often follows in its wake that prevents humanity from realizing the potency for action that we possess here on earth.