Critical Analysis of the Character of Estragon

1. NAME : DHAPA JETALBEN ASHOKBHAI
SEM : 3RD
SUBJECT: ENGLISH PAPER NO.9 ( THE MODERN
LITERATURE )
TOPIC : CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CHARACTER ESTRAGON
YEAR : 2018/19
ROLL NO.: 12
EMAIL : JETALDHAPA@GMAIL.COM
ENROLLMENT NO. 2069108420190012
SUBMIT : S.B GARDI DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMAR UNIVERSITY
BHAVNAGAR

2. ABOUT THE PLAY : THE WAITING FOR GODOT
 Waiting for Godot is play
by Samuel Bucket.
Waiting for Godot is
Buckets translation of
his own French
language play, ‘An
attendant Godot’. It is a
Small tragedy divided
into Two acts.
 The original French text
was composed between
9 October 1948 and 29
January 1949.

3. THE CHARACTER LIST OF WAITING FOR GODOT :
1) Vladimir : He was a main character of the
play.Estragon say to him ‘Didi’and the boy
addressed him Mr. Albert.
2) Estragon: He also well known and useful character
of the play. Vladimir say to him ‘Gogo’.
3) Lucky :Lucky remain completely faithful to him. He
remains faithful and has not tried to run away. He
passes by the spot where Vladimir and Estragon
are waiting and provides a diversion.
4) Pozzo : In second act pozzo gone blind he need to
led by Lucky. In Act I, he entertains by dancing and
thinking. However, in Act II, he is dumb.

4. CONTINUED…..
 Boy - He appears at the end of each act to inform
Vladimir that Godot will not be coming that night.
 In the second act, he insists that he was not there
the previous night.
 Godot - The man for whom Vladimir and Estragon
wait unendingly. Godot never appears in the play.
 His name and character are often thought to refer
to God.

5. CHARACTER OF ESTRAGON :
 Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic side of the
two main characters, much in contrast to his
companion Vladimir's careful intellectualism and
verbosity.
 He cares little for appearances, and is mostly
concerned with eating and sleeping.
 This is perhaps because Estragon has far more to
worry about. Of the two, Estragon suffers the most
physically.
 He also has great difficulty with his boots. In the first
act, they do not fit and cause him pain. At the end of
the act, he leaves them on the side of the road in
disgust. In the second act, he finds them in the same

6. CONTINUED……
 He considers people to be
"ignorant apes" and seems
to want them to leave him
alone.
Appearance of Estragon :
Estragon is given
perhaps the most minimal
description in the play. He is
only described as wearing
"rags", walking with a limp
and being lighter than
Vladimir.
Because of his rather
gluttonous nature, however,
he is often played as being
short and slightly fat. His
clothes are usually a bit
dirtier than Vladimir's as
well, and seem to be in far
worse condition.

7. COMPARISON ESTRAGON CHARACTER WITH MOVIE ‘ANNIYAN’
CHARACTER OF ‘AMBI’
Anniyan(Aparichit) is a
2005 Indian Tamil-
language psychological
thriller film written and
directed by S.
Shankar and produced
by V.Ravichandran of
Aascar Films.
Ambi, an idealistic, law-
abiding lawyer who
has multiple personality
disorder and develops
two other identities.

8. OTHER COMPARISON WITH ‘GAJINI’ AND
‘MEMENTO’