As further examples of the nihilist worldview that pervades Waiting for Godot, the play's character names may be significant precisely for being insignificant, meaningful in that they mean nothing. In the end, Beckett's character names suggest the possibility of meaning but fail to deliver on this promise, just as Godot promises to save Vladimir and Estragon but never shows up. And Lucky's name is anything but fitting, as he is the character who unluckily suffers the most onstage. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. The story revolves around two men waiting for someone or something named Godot. As further examples of the nihilist worldview that pervades Waiting for Godot, the plays character names may be significant precisely for being insignificant. This would be in line with other character names: Estragon means "tarragon" in French, for example, while Pozzo is Italian for a water well, but these meanings hold little to no significance for those characters. Waiting for Godot is a 1953 play by Samuel Beckett that has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the 20th century. In the end, Becketts character names suggest the possibility of meaning but fail to deliver on this promise, just as Godot promises to save Vladimir and Estragon but never shows up. But the similarity between "Godot" and "God" could also be a game Beckett is playing with his audience and readers, a kind of red herring that actually imparts no important information. Along this reading, Godot symbolizes the salvation that religion promises, but which never comes (just as Godot never actually comes to Vladimir and Estragon). The most important example is Godot, whose name evokes similarity to God for many readers.
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot.
Waiting for Godot was a true innovation in drama and the Theatre of the Absurd ’s first theatrical success. Many of the names in Beckett's play can be seen has having hidden meanings. Waiting for Godot, tragicomedy in two acts by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, published in 1952 in French as En attendant Godot and first produced in 1953.
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