Events that Vladimir and Estragon play out like taking a boot on and off, for no reason. After the uncertainty of their actions and not knowing what the magnitude of their decisions might affect in the long run, neither one of them actually decides to move. Another technique Samuel Beckett uses is his narration technique it's in-medias-res because these two characters have no memory of where they have been or how long they have been waiting. This is not a linear set of events that take place in this play to allow any kind of rational outcome. The story line is unclear when the recurring event of the character's life actually started to begin with.Samuel Beckett's major point in which he is trying to convey is the use of free-will. Major themes in which Samuel Beckett illustrates is religion, eternal return, and metamorphosis or lack there of. In Samuel Beckett's extremely rhetorical absurd world there isn't any knowledge of what's outside the small world in which his characters live in.Samuel Beckett uses an ironic situation with their mutual interactions with the outside world."As Vladimir and.
Estragon are already condemned to endless suffering in the form of ceaseless waiting, the spectator might expect them to focus their game on a more optimistic issue. Instead, they heed the cries of desperation and seize the opportunity to immerse themselves in a game of suffering that does nothing but increase their own.The scene in which the suffering protagonists deliver blows to another defenseless creature projects a bitter irony: sufferers promote suffering in their search for salvation"(Karic 239). Samuel Beckett's play is about the ironic choices his characters make and whether or not any choice they make has an impact at all in their abstract world. .
Samuel Beckett's dianoia is similar to Friedrich Nietzsche's major ideas in most of his philosophical theories on man and humanity as a whole.