Though this seems to be the case with the two pairs of characters, Vladimir and Estragon and Lucky and Pozzo, in Samuel Beckett's Existentialist masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, it is in fact quite the contrary. ... With this decision, they have chosen routine, conversation, and waiting for Godot as their essense. ... We are left with two men who wait endlessly for someone they don't know much about, two others who have enslaved each other, and all but one of these four can't remember the others from one meeting to the next. ...

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