To quote the British critic Kenneth Tynan, "Beckett's Waiting for Godot is a dramatic vacuum...It has no plot, no climax, no denouement; no beginning, no middle, and no end." ... The play is based on how two characters Vladimir and Estragon wait for a mutual friend of theirs named Godot whom strangely both of them have never seen but hold in awe and respect. In their wait, they meet Pozzo and his slave Lucky and also a messenger boy who claims he comes from Godot who in the end does not even turn up. ... An equally significant fact is the inability of Godot to arrive. ... Or in other word...

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