Summary:
Analyzes Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. Provides a plot summary and discusses its function as a critical allegory of religious faith, relaying that it is a natural necessity for people to have faith.
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot has been said by many people to be a long book about nothing. The two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, spend all their time sitting by a tree waiting for someone named Godot, whose identity is never revealed to the audience. It may sound pretty dull at first but by looking closely at the book, it becomes apparent that there is more than originally meets the eye. Waiting for Godot was written to be a critical allegory of religious faith, relaying that it is a natural necessity for people to have faith, but faiths such as Catholicism are misleading and corrupt.
Vladimir and Estragon spend all their time through out the book waiting for "Godot." It is unclear to the audience if either of them have ever seen Godot or even talked.....
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