Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Life has two absolute truths, birth and death.  The momentary experiences and memories that define what lies between these two truths have been structured into a linear progression of the human mind into the concept known as time.  If one accepts this exestentialist view of existence, then the concepts of fate and predestiny simply cannot exist.  Each moment of life is dictated by chance and circumstance, bestowing fortune on some while misery on others.  In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot Beckett represents the world of Vladimir and Estragon as one of chaos, devoid of any meaningful structure or pattern.  Time cannot be applied in this world where day can end without notice  and where one cannot remember their actions from the previous day.  Time is essentially meaningless, as it is only experienced by a terminal repetition of waiting with no end in sight, except death.  The mundane process of this wait is cyclical and almost totally repetitious, however in the second act variations in the repetition become apparent.  These variations are most noticeable in Pozzo and Lucky during their second meeting with Vladimir and Estragon.  Because of time’s relationships with the cohesion of moments in one’s life and its representation as a futile concept within the play, a conclusion can be drawn that life as well is just as insignificant.  The dramatic changes that occur in Lucky and Pozzo are a manifestation of the meaninglessness of time and therefore life, the blind forces of chance and circumstance that indiscriminately wield themselves upon the human race making time and life insignificant and powerless, and the ultimate universality of the individual.