Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot is a play that has provoked varying thoughts since it was first written. ... The only reason they continue to wait each day is the hope that Godot might bring. ... They talk to try and pass the time while waiting for Godot. ... The opening few lines of Waiting for Godot are intended to be viewed as a kind of introduction to the play and the characters. ... They are in a continual cycle of nothingness and the only hope they have is to wait for Godot and see what he might bring. ...

• Word Count: 1622
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

Vladimir and Estragon explain that they are waiting for Godot. ... Vladimir and Estragon keep reminding themselves of what they are doing now, which is waiting for Godot. ... They decide to wait for Godot one more day and they would hang themselves unless Godot comes. ... The same is true of the laugh" (Waiting for Godot, act 1). ... They just wait until Godot comes and do not try anything else except for waiting. ...

• Word Count: 1666
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Well, Tom Stoppard wrote about this very thing after a long line of writers who have already written such stories with Waiting for Godot being the most famous of them all. In this play two men, Gogo and Didi, are waiting for Godot. ... Events takes place but they always end up waiting for Godot. ... He wrote the play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead following the essence of the Theatre of the Absurd, with chaos in the play, showing the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach, and based off the essentials of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godo...

• Word Count: 2396
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School