“Waiting for Godot”

In our last class discussion we discussed everything that is “Waiting for Godot”. I found this class discussion time the most interesting simply because it’s such a different, unique piece. First Off, this story is not like many things I have read before. This piece is extremely sporadic and random. There never really seems to be one singular meaning or train of thought. It’s not like a usual piece of theatre, there’s not much blocking, character description, or any sort of real direction. So it took a lot of focus and attention to draw out meaning. Through all the confusion and mumble I can up with some sort of theme.

There seems to be a lot of ‘waiting’ in the play; waiting for the unknown. Going through the text I believe one of the points Samuel Beckett, the author, was trying to portray was to stop waiting and make life happen. The main characters were waiting the WHOLE play and were notable getting agitated. They got NOTHING accomplished. In life, you cannot wait around for your life to start, for your big break to happen; you have to make it happen. Or in other words, don’t let life control you, you have take control of your life.

Now, I am not saying that is the concrete theme of this whole play and everybody else in wrong. There are many interpretation of the piece and any one of them can be correct. I believe a lot of what we draw out of literature is based off of who we are, what we’ve been through, and where we are from. I think its great that there are so many different interpretations and thoughts about this piece. It shows that we are all different and not everybody fits in to one mold.