... seems to be the case with the two pairs of characters, Vladimir and Estragon and Lucky and Pozzo, in Samuel Beckett's Existentialist masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, it is in fact quite the contrary. Before understanding the essense of the characters in this play, it is imperative to understand the Existentialist ... of employing that freedom appropriately, without being driven by anxiety toward escaping into the inauthenticity or self-deception of any conventional set of rules for behavior and sometimes with the aid of luck, even though the entire project may turn out to be absurd" (Phil...

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... here. They achieved this in the short-lived art form of absurdist theatre. Samuel Beckett wrote one of the more successful absurdist plays, in 1956 called "Waiting for Godot". In this he poured in tones of symbolism and embodied a lot of the existentialist beliefs into it. Suicide being the last conscious decision that we can make. This ... out life as we know it. The meaning of Didi and Gogo's lives is to wait, this is what they have chosen to do. They are in all probability waiting for God, as religion has not done what science and technology done, let them down, this is represented by...

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