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Christ depends on chance and there is an element of chance in human destiny. Pozzo says of Lucky" Remark that I might easily have been in his shoes and he in mine." On a broader level Pozzo and Lucky are master and slave representing the body and mind. The play is chiefly concerned with the mystery and inexplicable puzzle and purposelessness of human life, the anxiety and despair that the human condition entails. It is this concern that reflects in the moods of the tramps through their waiting. Beckett has not told the identity of Godot in the play and it is left as the mystery and whether Godot represents God is a debatable topic but he is surely the one who is looked upon by the tramps for their probable salvation. Godot though promises them to turn up but his assurance was as vague as the tramps' prayer to him. There is total absence of information regarding the personal background information of all four characters which add up to the mysterious atmosphere in the play that seeks to state the illogicality and absurdity of the human condition.The superficially comic dialogue conveys a deeper message to us and is repetitive in nature. The words not said and the pauses are more meaningful than the explicit things said in the play. It has been said that "silence pours into this play water into a sinking ship". The two tramps might appear an outsider to us but they present to us the modern day meaninglessness of life that in which we all are trapped- a habit to which there is no escape. Even the empty stage here acts as a metaphor for life, it is we who have to fill it up and should not wait for the outside help to invest meaning to our lives. The Godot which doesn't appear in the entire play represents the outer world and expects unquestioned submission otherwise the tramps will be punished by him. According to Beckett-"there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with an obligation to express". Godot is just like any other miniature god for which men wait hopefully and in fear, to solve their problem and invest meaning to their pointless lives, and for whose sake they sacrifice the only real gift they have, their free will. To sum up,the futility waiting symbolises the futility of human life which is trapped in a world best compared to a hall of mirrors from which the attempts to get away only makes the prisoner look comic. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Abhishek_Shandilya
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