The setting of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot is much like Jean-Paul Sartre's portrait of an existential hell in the play No Exit, in that in both, torture is not physical pain, but the monotony and meaninglessness of waiting for nothing. In Waiting For Godot, Vladimir and Estragon repeatedly make desperate attempts to ... does come. When Estragon believes he hears someone coming, Vladimir jumps to the conclusion that "it's Godot! At last! Gogo! It's Godot! We're saved"(83)! Vladimir is unbelievably excited by the prospect of Godot finally arriving. Earlier in the play, while the two ch...

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