{"id":239,"date":"2008-12-07T22:05:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T02:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/07\/what-is-the-play-about-i-think-i-hit-this-one-out-of-the-park\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T23:05:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T03:05:05","slug":"what-is-the-play-about-i-think-i-hit-this-one-out-of-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/07\/what-is-the-play-about-i-think-i-hit-this-one-out-of-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Play about? (I think I hit this one out of the park)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geoffrey McQuilkin<\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While reading Waiting for Godot<\/em>, I was "waiting" for a climax or crux moment that would give me a better understanding of the play and facilitate the process of answering the first questions in the Longman analysis.\u00a0 I waited and waited. \u00a0The leaves on the trees changed color and fell from their limbs as seasons came and went, but the plot never came.\u00a0 In the winter of 2008, when the snow was gently falling on a brisk evening at the University of Richmond and I was warm in my dormitory, I began to uncover what Samuel Beckett had left for me to discover on my own. \u00a0Pondering the day's events in my head, it became clear that Waiting for Godot<\/em> was a social commentary on the repetitive nature of the human experience.\u00a0 The way that Beckett repeats the actions of Act I in Act II (with some inconsequential changes) is a metaphor for the monotony of our everyday lives.\u00a0 Human lives consist of a myriad of repetitions of a daily routine that is essentially meaningless.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The play builds towards a climax that never comes. \u00a0Godot never arrives and there is no reason to believe that he would if Beckett had added a third act.\u00a0 It seems as though the entire play (and perhaps life sadly enough) is about wasting time.\u00a0 The main characters find themselves "Waiting for…waiting" (50). \u00a0It is not a stretch to imagine that GODot represents God or death and the title of the play implies the futility of life.\u00a0 Beckett seems to imply that life is meaningless as it consists of distracting ourselves with various tasks (and tensions) as we wait to die. Estrogen and Vladimir are the protagonists in the play, yet they both serve as representatives of mankind.\u00a0 Beckett uses Vladimir to point out how man strives to find meaning in his existence in vein.\u00a0 One could say that Vladimir is meant to point out the absurdity of religion in this sense.\u00a0 However, to assign a meaning to anything or any character in this play would be considered an absurdity by Becket as the play is about meaninglessness.\u00a0 The analysis for "what is this play about" should be left as a blank space in a tribute to meaninglessness.\u00a0 But that would be too deep for most audiences.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And just a side note: the word "Meaninglessness" contains far too many letters for what the word actually means.\u00a0 It should be a one or two letter word or an invisible word such as\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0 Thinking about what the meaningless play is about is hurting my brain and I apologize if what I wrote was ridiculous.\u00a0 I am only human so it doesn't matter anyway (according to Beckett of course, I love blog posting). I suppose this blog post is just one more repetition in the endless cycle of pointless waiting.\u00a0 And that is what the play is about.\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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