nothing comes out of nothing (Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett)

Member Name: ddofdexter

Product:	Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Date:	01/01/09 (39 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: worthreading play

Disadvantages: none at all

With modern times come the distortion of the old believes where everything was held supreme from man to god to animals. My love for this new existentialist literature make me read these plays and novels again and again. I can't stop myself as these plays novella or novels simply and marvellously baffle blow me away from my comfortable position in the world to the bare hard rocky realities of life. I can never imagine that some day I hav to identify myself to a person who eats carrots on good days and turnips on bad days and has one thing to do in the life that is waiting.
The word waiting is very strong in the title of this play it stand s out from all other words its not wait or wited its waiting that means that it is an action that is kepp on going without any end. This waiting is the epitome opf all our life. This waiting is infinite so it makes itself at one instance useless also because its without any end. If some one has seen the first part of matrix there is one line that really is echoing continously in my mind that is that if we won't wake up from our dream how can we say that we are indream or in the real life. It means to make something meaningful it has to be ended.
The story revolves around two characters Vladimir and Estragon. Bothe of them are waiting for godot by a tree. The words that are most important in the play are nothing as they are liiterally doing nothing in the play all they are doing is waiting. They keep on waiting till the end of the play. As all the actions they do during this waiting are reduced to nothing. Then we are introduced to two new characters and one of them is Lucky who though is a servant has the intellect but he is treated as an animal. I believe the play is without a beginning or end. It keeps on moving in circles like our life totally wasted.
The word Godot is also very interesting as godot is actually god himself but as the modern existentialist philosopher believes that god is dead so we can also say godot is dead. Then some say god is a very unique word as its not god if it is inverted it becomes dog. So both have the same essence. That supreme god that was once idolized and worshipped is either dead or has converted into an animal. If we believe that the person lucky who was deteriorated as an animal is godot. Then all this waiting would be reduced to nothing. Thats why they keep on saying nothing to be done. Even when they would know that godot is dead I believe that they would keep on waiting as this is the only thing they can do and they will do till the end.
This is a worth reading play. As I read it before I saw it so I really felt many things while reading that I would have missed while watching. In this play the silence and the gaps are also very meaningful. So I recommend to read this play before seeing it

Summary: amazing play