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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
My first ever experience with Beckett. How did he do it? How did he successfully make short back and forth dialogue not boring or tedious?
Waiting for Godot is such an interesting play. The plot is literally as the title says. Two men having a conversation while waiting for Godot. There are encounters with other characters, sure but,
Waiting for Godot is such an interesting play. The plot is literally as the title says. Two men having a conversation while waiting for Godot. There are encounters with other characters, sure but,
ESTRAGON: What do we do now?
VLADIMIR: I don’t know.
ESTRAGON: Let’s go.
VLADIMIR: We can’t.
ESTRAGON: Why not?
VLADIMIR: We’re waiting for Godot.
ESTRAGON: (despairingly). Ah!
they're waiting for Godot.
As you follow the interaction between the characters, you will be pulled along to different windows of life to reflect on existence, meaning, justice, power, etc just to get pulled back again to realize that we're in the middle of waiting. And that's just what we will see at the end, it's that maybe the Godot we are waiting for is the present moment we spend waiting for him. It doesn't end there, though, does it? We will look at the time that have gone by and question, do we have to wait? why are we waiting for it? what is it that we are actually waiting for?
I'm glad I read this while I was on a train, because honestly I was just trying to enjoy the journey, both the train, and the book.
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
I don't think I have anything to say beyond like. Yeah I get it. Who amongst us hasn't been waiting for something they're only mostly sure is coming? One of plays I want to read again, and then watch
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
reflective
it’s when gogo says “we always find something, eh didi, to give us the impression we exist” paired with each character’s recurring amnesia, never remembering nor remembered by, which only dear, loving, responsible, and punctual didi seems immune to, that’s when this play really hit me in the chest! even gogo’s claim relies on “impression[s]” of their existence, no confirmation at all offered to verify the circuitous, patient, tedious performance at hand
beckett oscillates between dialogues of nonsense non-words (V: Moron! E: Vermin! V: Abortion! E: Morpion! V: Sewer-rat! E: Curate! V: Cretin! E: (with finality). Crritic!) and poetic declarations of meaning which anyone else would else would declare wretchedly unmeaningful and unblessed (“V: But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! […] But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come –“). all this to say, tragicomedy? epitome of. play rooted irretrievably in uncertainty, absurdity, and all else elusive? for sure. resonates 100x more with 25yo me than 16yo me? no doubt about it absolutely
An absurd masterpiece that deconstructs its own logic from the instant it starts. Waiting for Godot grapples with the existential question of: What does it all mean? The characters all desire something unspoken and unclarified, waiting for Godoy provides the only hope to an otherwise bleak existence that is devoid of other sources of purpose. And yet, we never know if Godot even exists.
I thoroughly enjoyed this play.
I thoroughly enjoyed this play.