“Waiting for Godot” is one of the most famous plays by Samuel Beckett, which was originally written in French in 1948. Then the writer decided to translate the play into English, so he did it himself. The play includes many of the ideas and things that Beckett had preciously discussed in his earlier works. “Waiting for Godot” is considered to be an absurdist play, which departs from realistic characters, situations and all of the associated theatrical conventions. “Waiting for Godot” is a tragicomedy play consisting of two acts. The action of both acts happens on the country road near the tree in the evening. Two bumps are sitting under the tree and are constantly waiting for an unknown man called Mr. Godot to come. Unfortunately we know nothing about this character, because he never really appears in the play. We only hear about him from the words of Estragon and Vladimir that are waiting for him to come and save them. From the very beginning of this play it’s clear that these two characters are desperate in their waiting; the purpose of their waiting is not to wait till Godot comes, but just to wait because of the lack of other things to do. They even don’t know where exactly to wait for him.

“He said by the tree. Do you see any others?”, says Vladimir. Having nothing to talk about, because obviously they have been waiting for long enough to get tired of each other, they decide to hang themselves on the tree they are sitting under. From my opinion that’s a good example of situation when people have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. “Let’s hang ourselves immediately!”, says Estragon; but later he realizes that if he hangs himself Vladimir might be left alone, “Gogo light—bough not break—Gogo dead. Didi heavy—bough break—Didi alone”, and feeling the remains of pity towards Vladimir he refuses to do so. They keep on waiting. From my point of view, Estragon and Vladimir represent extremely poor and desperate people, who have lost everything in their lives, and have nothing to do but hope and wait for someone to come and save them. The only thing that I don’t understand is why they don’t they do something to change their fate? Every day they keep sitting in the same place talking about non-existent savior. They have no rights thinking that they got rid of them; Estragon eats carrot and then says, “Funny, the more you eat the worse it gets.” This can be also interpreted as the more you live the more you don’t like it. Soon after that they meet Pozzo and Lucky. I think that the character of Pozzo was meant to represent all evil existing in the world, totality of wealthy and cruel people that rule in the world and in this way make other people suffer. Pozzo didn’t come alone; he came with his slave Lucky (a very unusual name for a slave I must say). Lucky does whatever his master Pozzo tells him to, he dances and gives long philosophical speeches. His speech is interrupted by Vladimir who grasps his hat; in the second act Lucky is mute, so he can’t give any speeches and therefore be interrupted. By the end of the first act a boy comes and says, “Mr. Godot told me to tell you he won’t come this evening but surely tomorrow.” After these words Vladimir feels sort of uneasy, because he is sure that the same boy came the day before and told that Godot would come today, but he doesn’t have any proofs besides his memory. Unfortunately Vladimir cannot completely trust his memory any more, because his friend Estragon doesn’t remember anything. “It wasn’t you came yesterday”, asks Vladimir the boy, knowing for sure that he did see this boy the previous day. Finally the two bums decide to part with each other proving this idea that they “weren’t made for the same road”. How mistaken they are! They stay at the same place as before, under the tree on the country road.
The second act begins exactly the same as the first one. Nothing has changed over the night, besides that Estragon again forgot everything that happened the day before. And of course the tree has changed; it now has some young sprouts on it. This might be a good sign for the two tramps, a sign of change. But unfortunately it’s not. Again Pozzo and Lucky come. This time Pozzo is blind and lucky is mute. I think that this was made for us to see that now people who are suffering (represented by Lucky) even don’t have the right to speak, and people who abuse others don’t even have eyes to notice it. By the end of second act the boy comes again saying that he has never seen the two bums before, and that Mr. Godot will come tomorrow.
This story may last forever. We know that hope is the one to die the last, so these two bums may hope for ever that someone will come and save them until they stand up and do something themselves. Unfortunately I don’t believe that they’ll ever be strong enough to do that.

Bibliography
1. Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” (New York St. Martin’s Press).

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