Godot
“Nothing to be done,” is one of the many phrases that is repeated again and again throughout Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot. Godot is an existentialist play that reads like somewhat of a language poem. That is to say, Beckett is not interested in the reader interpreting his words, but simply listening to the words and viewing the actions of his perfectly mismatched characters. Beckett uses the standard Vaudevillian style to present a play that savors of the human condition. He repeats phrases, ideas and actions that has his audience come away with many different ideas about who we are and how beautiful our human existence is even in our desperation. The structure of Waiting For Godot is determined by Beckett’s use of repetition. This is demonstrated in the progression of dialogue and action in each of the two acts in Godot. The first thing an audience may notice about Waiting For Godot is that they are immediately set up for a comedy. The first two characters to appear on stage are Vladimir and Estragon, dressed in bowler hats and boots. These characters lend themselves to the same body types as Abbot and Costello. Vladimir is usually cast as tall and thin and Estragon just the opposite.
From this beat on the characters move through a what amounts to a comedy routine. Pozzo: I don’t seem to be able. The aforementioned phrase, “Nothing to be done,” is one example of repetition in dialogue. What is everyday for us but another of the same act. The habit that controls our lives is the same habit that fuels the characters in Godot. In the first half-dozen pages of the play the phrase is repeated about four times. Comedy routines have a beginning and an ending. It is not very long into the second act before one realizes that all they are really doing is wasting time, “Waiting for.
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