Waiting for Godot

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Summary: Waiting for a plot...
Review: Ugh... I wrinkle my nose at the mear mention of the name "Godot"

Now i must take into mind that plays are ment to be seen and not read but still... waiting for Godot is just dreadful. Vladimir and Estregon are limp, barely live characters that a person could belive as readily as their daft adventures!

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Summary: Nonsense
Review: I read this book for my lit class and I found it nonsense. This play is so dumb and pointless. It is the biggest disappointment in my class. I suggest that no one wastes time on this nonsense.

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Summary: Silly people give silly interpretations
Review: It is hard to understand how people can give this play one star. Actually, it is easy because Americans don't like to think very deeply into what they read, if they read at all (generally speaking, of course). The play deals with faith in the face of absurdity. It is about blind hope and waiting for something that will never happen. And about the cyclical nature of life. I highly recommend the play to anyone with an open mind.

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Summary: Who is waiting for whom?
Review: It is not very clear whether the two tramps are more interested in Godot or we are.We wait for Godot along with the two tramps with a lot of patience, impatience, hope and hopelessness.For three hours at least we think that the two tramps may finally come-it is a unique opportunity for Catharsis-we want to atone for our lack of humane feelings for others-what if two poor tramps are in the void and have to drag a painful existence, we are at least happy and full of hopes. We should remember that waiting is astrong metaphor in the play-to wait is to exist and to exist we have to wait for something.Beckett is forcing us to live the Holocaust of our conscience, the bombing of our beliefs, the destruction of our faith in God.We wait for the play to proceed-we want to draw meaning from it-why should we?We wait for the tramps to act or we expect something miraculous to occur-much of the waiting is done by us-the tramps are enjoying themselves-you and me we are desperataly looking for meaning in it-does your life have any meaning, any logic?Then why do you want the tramps to have any? The play takes us deep within ourselves-it is an introspection in the remote recesses of our conscience.It is a rethinking process-who are we?We are a mixture of Estragon, Vladimir, Pozzo, Lucky and even Godot-we have been marginalised by our own conscience, we are travellers ,looking for better prospects, we carry others'burden without realising that we have been enslaved be our senses and desires.We are like Godot-we promise and do not keep our words. Threatrically speaking the play is revolutionary.Broken sentences,regular confusions by the tramps, the long diatribe by Lucky remind us of serious devaluation of language in our world-the two world wars have not totally killed humanity but have left them grovelling, we are like Sysiphus, we are condemned to wait. Watching the play brings us closer to our own existence.

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Summary: Waiting for Godot
Review: Contrary to the popular belief that this is a bunch of BS, I find it to be one of the most honest and moving insights to humanity. It may seem redundant and boring within the first five pages, but this play demands us to ask more of ourselves in seeing its depth. The ever-present way they wait for Godot symbolizes the continual hope that there is in searching for meaning in the middle of life's absurdities.

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Summary: Was there a point to it?
Review: Ok, the book makes you think. I give it that. But there was very little story line, and it was all nonsense. Ok, and I did laugh, but I still think it could use some more plot. I guess overall you can say that I liked it, but at the same time, was Beckett writing a book of complete nonsense? What was the point? Put it this way...if you're looking for something to read, and you don't care what, read this play. If you want some real meaning, read it anyway just so you can write a review and email me what you think!

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Summary: Most popular play of "the last modernist"
Review: Reading this play takes some energy, but at the theater, people from all walks of life seemed to enjoy it. Believing in "hope" has been problematic, and I found this play a great relief. As to absurd theater, here's from Martin Esslin: "the recognition that there is no simple explanation for all the mysteries of the world, that all previous systems have been oversimplified and therefore bound to fail, will appear to be a source of despair only to those who still feel that such a simplified system can provide an answer. The moment we realize that we may have to live without any final truths the situation changes; we may have to readjust ourselves to living with less exulted aims and by doing so become more humble, more receptive, less exposed to violent disappointments and crises of conscious - and therefore in the last resort happier and better adjusted people, simply because we then live in closer accord with reality."

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Summary: An epiphany re Godot
Review: Having just viewed Waiting for Godot I'd suggest detailed meanings that I have not seen in any of the reviews. Written between 1947-1949 the play is not only about the emptyness of life in the destroyed landscape of Europe, but about the expectation of the Second Coming or God 2. The main characters are the lost, hopeless, English (Dodo)and Russian (Vladimir)empires. They have nothing to do except to try and recall their past. The boy who brings the message from Godot is the future, his brother, the past. At the end of Act II, the future still comes to offer hope that Godot will come tomorrow, but the past is now fully dead. Most of the details of the action, Passo, and Lucky fit very neatly into this understanding. Recall that Beckett, as an Irishman, served in the French underground during the war.

In my opinion, it is both an expression of wide frustration with inaction and a very specific picture of post WWII Europe.

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Summary: Critisism on human's nature!
Review: OOK! I am a college student and our teacher assigned us to read the play "waiting For Godot" and write a 6 pages essay on it commenting the nature of human relationships. Now! i don't think the book sends the message quite clearly. I've also read the play "for The Pleasure Of Seeing Her Again" and our teacher says that these two plays have something in commen. But unfortunately I cannot find any connection. Waiting For Godot does not flow. there are three or even more characters come and go. The characters seem to have no connection to one another.ie: Vladimir,Estragon and Pozzo have come from different backgrounds and somehow don't relate to one another. I think the book has something to esssy about existence, creation, world, life, death, and people. The book wants to say that our existence rely on chances and probability, in a way that we don't have any control on our life. I also don't know how these two plays, Waiting for Godot and for the pleasure of seeingher agin have somehting in commen. I guess For the pleasure of seeing her agsin more likely relates to peoples lives than Waiting For godot.

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Summary: The king has no clothes!
Review: I read thru the glowing reviews of other readers and all I could think of was that Hans Christian Anderson fable in which all the kings subjects heaped praise on his clothes when in fact he was naked. This play is just plain awful. Because there is so little there, it leaves ample spaces for people with vivid imaginations to fill in all manner of meaning. I have read several examples from the "Theater of the Absurd" genre and many were at least witty such as Ionesco's Rhinoceros.

This play was neither amusing nor interesting - just tedious.