- Waiting for Godot is an influential play written in 1948 by Samuel Beckett that helped establish the Theatre of the Absurd genre. It features two homeless men, Vladimir and Estragon, who pass the time waiting endlessly for the arrival of someone named Godot, who never shows up. The plot revolves around their repetitive conversations as they wait in a barren landscape. The play highlighted the absurdity and meaninglessness of human existence through its lack of traditional plot progression or resolution.

1. Waiting for Godot
By: Jonathan K. García Vázquez

2. Author
• Samuel Beckett was the father of the Theatre of
the Absurd and Author of Waiting for Godot. He
influenced many of the dramatist of the decade.
• He's objective was not to understand the lack of
sense of life, but to show how absurd life is,
were liberty,justice, psychology and
language(basically everything) are just
approximations of a doubtful reality in which is
open to interpretation. A reality that is just
disappointing.

3. About the Play
• Genre:tragedy, comedy
• written in French in 1948 by Samuel Beckett
• It’s important to know about it because it was one of the first and best
known plays of the Theater of the Absurd.
• It’s also important because the Theater of the Absurd preformed many
situations that were not preformed before at theTheater.
• It represents he development of the Theater itself and history.

4. Let's talk a little about the category or classification.
• This drama is part of the Theatre of the Absurd. This
term is a classification that contains many dramatist
of 50 decade. It's consider a response against
the traditional concepts of the Theatre. It's also
recognise as Anti-Theatre
• The absurd was a form to confront anxiety and the
inexplicable.
• The fantasy, the nightmare are some of the elements
that are part of the essence of the Theatre.

5. Purpose
• Their purpose was to present something undesirable
and unexpected to the public. Where logic and
philosophy were not applicable.
• It wanted to bring to the scene questions and
problems about life and let every spectator
interpret and analyze based on their own experiences
and ideologies.

6. Let's talk a little about the characteristics of the Theater of the absurd.
I find this important because it will help us analyze the play itself.
1.Plot with poor significance
2.Repetition of dialog
3. Humor
4.Incoherence
5.lack of character expression and communication

7. Setting
• In Waiting for Godot, we never know where the play takes place, except
that it is somewhere at a “country road."
• Also mentions a tree, but some performances avoid having it.
• It could be anywhere by my undestarding.

8. Plot
• Waiting for Godot is about Vladimir and Estragon, two homeless that get
together and wait for the arrival of a third member, Godot. While waiting
for his arrival, the two find themselves wandering around and many
unexpected things begin to happen. A messenger comes every night to tell
them that Godot won't come today, that he will surely come tomorrow. The
two were stuck at a loop waiting for someone who never comes and then
they decide to stop the wait for the night and leave.

9. Characters
• Main characters: Estragon and Vladimir
• Secundary Characters: Pozzo, Lucky and the messenger boy

10. Conflicts
• Internal Conflict
• The characters want to wait for Godot to come.
• Complications
• The messenger comes and tells them that Godot will not
come to night and that he will come tomorrow, but he never
comes.

18. Play segment
• "But that is not the question. Why are we here, that is the question. And we are blessed
in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing
alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come.
• I choose this segment because it tells the reader the purpose of their wait.

19. Personal Opinion
• I think the play was very interesting.Very different
because it goes against the Theater old ideals. I
found it quite humorous and enjoyed watching it
being preformed. I also liked that no one can prove
you wrong in your analysis of the play.The analysis
of the play is something personal and that
everyone is incline to their opinions. I highly
recommend it.