Sayed Amanuddin Sayedy

Eng: 2850

Prof. Jeffrey Peer

Date: April 24, 2017

Dear Class,

The tragicomic play “Waiting for Godot” is a notable, yet very unusual play written by Irish Nobel Prize-winner Samuel Beckett in 1952. The play is work of absurd theater in two separate acts, yet the play remain in the same consequence. The main characters are Vladimir and Estragon who are the two tramps on the side of a road one lacks “memory” and other “can’t think”, in a total uncertain situation “nothing is certain” yet waiting each day for “certain” deity called “Godot” as their personal God, with a hope to show up and save their souls. Godot is a mysterious deity, a Personal God.

The main theses which I arrived yet is that, “Waiting for Godot” offers a play in a tragicomic form, but it also operate in a contradiction principle; it clearly discusses and challenge the human religions by tying it to uncertainty, lack of truth, absurdity, and lack of presence, which makes it hard to know what is objectively true in the extent of faith. Yet it discuss that human being believe in a mysterious deity “outside time”, “without extension”, loves dearly, “with a white beard” as their personal God, and believe that their souls can only be “saved” if their personal God “Godot” were to appear and accept their priers. On the Page 1 after the introduction I came to manage this point.

I developed my ideas after a close reading of the play and comparing it with different religions, especially Christianity. I came to this conclusion that the play acts based on contradiction principalities; it challenge the human religion yet it cannot disagree with a mysterious deity as personal God. As this is my first draft, and would act as a base and foundation of my work, yet, I would like to discuss and analysis it more precisely in the next versions of my work.