By Eric Houdek
As Alejandro and Mary Beth have stated, Waiting For Godot is different from reality because there is immense ambiguity in the perception of time. I feel that Beckett has presented this ambiguity for a number of reasons. First, the inibility of the characters to grasp the true concept of time helps to invoke a sense of hopelessness and cluelessness upon the audience. When looking at the title, the concept of time is expressed in the word waiting. The characters spend all of their time waiting for Godot, which turns out to be fruitless. Perhaps because the audience cannot identify the time that is parallell with the play, Waiting For Godot suggests that the hopeless struggle presented in the play applies to man as a whole.