Waiting for Godot: Godot

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Appearance

Role

  • Notable by his absence
  • Described as a relatively kind master, does not beat the first boy but does his brother- symbolism of the first tending the goats and the second the sheep- being beaten by religion
  • Vladimir and Estragon convinced he is their saviour, wait endlessly- E: 'We're not tied?'...V: 'To Godot? Tied to Godot? What an idea! No question of it! (Pause) For the moment.'

Development (Growth & change)

Identity

  • Master to The Boy and his brother, who he sends at end of both acts, unclear if it is the same boy- V: 'How's your brother...Perhaps it was him who came yesterday'
  • Could be read as Godot- absent saviour never coming to aid of the suffering- fits in with context of Postmodernism
  • Vladimir and Estragon offer him 'a kind of prayer…a vague supplication’
  • However Beckett has said: ‘If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot’

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