Godot? Samuel Beckett's Play "Waiting Essay

As long as they wait for Godot they are aware of their being. There is no more talk of "cogito ergo sum" -- I thing therefore I exist, since the thinking is not helping one anymore, but there is talk of "waiting." The author may suggest that the saying could be turned into: "I wait for Godot, therefore I am."

Godot may be another type of God, a merciless, cruel God, more like the God of the Old Testament than the God revealed in the four Gospels of the New Testament. The logic behind this conclusion may be that only a merciless God who likes to punish his children can stay hidden and eternally bound human beings with a message of his arrival instead of actually ever arriving.Godot may also be the creation of two minds, those of Vladimir and Estragon, who already lost in their own insanity, have come up with this character in order to give them a purpose.

In any case, Godot's absence makes the characters in the play act a certain way, a way that resonates with all the troubles humanity has gone thorough, thanks to its condition. God has not yet come, nor does anyone know when he will come or….....