![]() ![]() Just as Vladimir and Estragon, more sympathically another way of doing so. ![]() Some critics also are of the view that while Pozzo and Lucky may be body and intellect, master and slave, capitalist and proletariat, colonizer and colonized, cain and Abel, sadist and masochist, Joyce and Beckett, they represent essentially and more simply one way of getting through life with someone else. According to this view, Godot is God and Pozzo is, therefore, God. Some critics tell us that Pozzo is no other than Godot himself. Pozzo and Lucky symbolize the relationship between capital and labour or between wealth and the artist. The theme of disintegration and regression is mainly symbolized by Pozzo-Lucky relationship. In spite of their inaction and pointlessness of their existence these two men still want to go on like millions of people who want to go even when their life becomes pointless. Vladimir and Estragon are distinct individuals having different characters, attitudes and temperaments. Vladimir compares their proud past with their gloomy present now and then. Again they are incapable of anything more than mere beginnings of impulse, desires, thoughts, moods, memories, and impressions. They are full of frustration and resentment, but they cling to each other with a mixture of interdependence and affection deriving comfort from calling each other by the childish names ‘Gogo’ and ‘Didi’. They illustrate the bond of understanding. Occasionally the two tramps talk of parting but never take the suggestion seriously. Vladimir-Estragon relationship symbolizes a relationship of naturalistic. The condition of the two helpless individuals is the condition of everyman. Nothingness is what these tramps are fighting against, and nothingness is the reason why they keep talking. This passing of time is a mutual obsession with the two men. They are forced to resort to various devices to pass time but each attempt sizzles out. They do not have the essential knowledge they do not know who exactly Godot is they do not know what Godot will do for them they do not know what would happen if they stopped waiting for Godot. They also represent ignorance, helplessness, impotence, and boredom. Both Estragon and Vladimir represent the ordeal of waiting. But in spite of that he is more or less a pathetic character finding himself quite himself and feeling compelled indefinitely to wait for Godot who is likely to bring about a change in the present situation but whose arrival seems to be very doubtful. Vladimir on the other hand is certainly more intelligent and more alert than Estragon. So he needs the care and guardianship of his friend and really can not do anything without him. Estragon seems to be a cowardly person who suffers from nightmarish visions. Vladimir and Estragon are the two main figures of the play. We have to judge how these relationships form the fabric of the drama. In spite of Vladimir-Estragon relationship and Pozzo-Lucky relationship, we have in this play the absent Godot’s relationship with these characters and with his servant boy. In Waiting for Godot, we have the two major relationships which mainly constitute the central theme of the drama. ![]()
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