Thursday, November 19, 2009
Waiting for Godot
I can truly understand why some people would be confused by the play “Waiting for Godot”. However, I feel like this play or story has so many meanings, I feel as if the author tries to get people to think, but the moral of the story is so obvious. I personally think the story of “Waiting for Godot” is constructed around hope, a lot like our Christian belief system. Even from the title you can draw some connection to the Christian faith and God, the title is waiting for “GODot” and if you take some time to look the first three letter of Godot’s name clearly spells out God, so it’s obvious the writer of the story is basing the story of the Christian belief. In addition to, I feel as if the two main characters in the story Vladimir and Estragon represents us as Christians and the tree is a representation of the world, we live our life as Christians waiting for God on a day to day basis, like Vladimir and Estragon we have no idea if God is real or how does he look like, but we wait on his return. We wait by this tree and many different obstacles comes our way, we sometime feel like quitting and to just go home, we sometimes face things that are so tragic that we become spiritually suicidal, however we stick around base on a young boy with a message that indicates that GODot is real and he may not come today but there is a good chance that he will be here tomorrow and we as Christians cannot make the mistake of going home and leaving the tree of the Christian faith because tomorrow GODot just may come and we will be no where to be found. I may be completely wrong about my translation of this story, but I honestly feel as if that is exactly what the author is trying to say.
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