waiting for godot book discussion :) (spoiler if u didnt read)

[greydemise]

hey ...i just read this book and it was pretty awesome...saw the movie too since i wanted to get a more personal feel for it, and i have to say..wow..it was hilarious yet it made you think...but who is godot..and why is vladmir (if u guys read it ) the only one who can remember..ive been trying t ocome up with a theory all day that seems to work
personally, i think vlad is stuck in purgatory (time is really slow sometimes, and really fast other times) and he is the only one that seems to know anything, and he is the only one that has memory of anything at all..his buddy (estragon) gets kicked by lucky and has a nasty injury on his shin..however, estragon is beaten everyday by a band of vagrants and has no marks what so ever...could GODOT be GOd? and be trying to test vladmirs faith in a way? vlad is waiting and waiting and recieves a "message" (little boy) that godot knows hes there and will be there tommorow...test of faith? and what about blind pozzo and mute lucky (when the previous day pozzo was ordering lucky around..and lucky made some huge speech in a loud voice)...test of faith as well? maybe vladmirs dreaming?
any thoughts :x? its been bugging me

 

[modium]

Haven't read it, but I'm always inclined to rock the Spamusement.

Waiting Waiting Waiting

 

[Strell]

I only saw a play of it long ago, but I remember hearing it was just a big commentary on existentialism and that Godot didn't exist, and that all the events that happen, bizarre though they be, are fragements of existentialist philosophy.

I will have to read the book. The play was done quite well.

 

[greydemise]

bump

 

[Capn Stabby]

I had to do a few papers on it in my AP English course in high school. I'm never a fan of the crap we do in English, all the discussing of symbols that aren't friggin there, but I actually really liked Waiting for Godot. We had a ball with it, our teacher insisted that Godot being God was too simple, but it's hard to find evidence to disprove it. I agree with your hypothesis that they're stuck in Purgatory waiting for all eternity for a GODot that will not come. I forget the rest of what I thought, but thanks to you, I might actually go and pick it up and give it another read

 

[Dead of Knight]

This was a decent book, read it a couple years ago... Godot didn't exist/would never come, and of course he's a metaphor for God. Godot is obviously supposed to be God, invinceable's teacher is a douche. Not everything has to be complicated; why else would they name him GODot?

 

[glass joe]

Its not as easy as just pinning a symbolic translation on it. Godot = God is a false statement, because there's no final proof in the text. Godot's position and name are suggestive of God, but maybe "God" (the word itself, the concept itself) is suggestive of salvation or redemption, or just "meaning". Becketts fun, but Kafka ownz him 7 days a week and twice on Sundays--this story is a colorful retelling of K's "Before the Law". That's where the confounding, deep ambiguity of Godot is stolen from--beckett just added comedy relief.