Waiting for Godot

Ans: Samuel Beckett is an Irish dramatist who belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd and is famous for his masterpiece “Waiting for Godot”.

Ans: Estragon and Vladimir are the tramps in Waiting for Godot, They represent the rootless and floating helpless people of the world. They also symbolize human beings who wait meaninglessly for some desired things that may not be fulfilled.

Ans: Estragon utters the words “nothing to be done” at the opening of “Waiting for Godot”.

Ans: Estragon, Vladimir, Pozzo and Lucky are the major characters in waiting for Godot.

Ans: The Boy Messenger-I informs Vladimir and Estragon that Godot will come tomorrow.

Ans: Godot is a mysterious character in Waiting for Godot. It may have a multiplication of meaning. It may indicate God. It may indicate eternal life, death and something for which human beings wait eagerly.

Ans: Pozzo is blind in Waiting for Godot.

Ans: Lucky is the slave who always obeys Pozzo.

Ans: Pozzo is sometimes considered the "antagonist" of Waiting for Godot. Although he is not technically in opposition to the so-called heroes of the play, he brings chaos into their sheltered world.

Ans: Pozzo addresses Lucky either as ‘pig’ or as ‘hog’.

Ans: Estragon symbolizes the animal instinct in man. He is mad for physical needs.

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Ans: Lucky symbolizes slavery and labour.

Ans: Pozzo's blindness signifies the absence of his sense of time.

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Ans: ‘Godot’ may refer to God, eternal life, death or something for which human beings wait eagerly.

Ans: When Estragon feels hungry, Vladimir gives him a carrot to eat.

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Ans: The original French title of the play Waiting for Godot is “En attendant Godot’’.

Ans: The nick-names of Vladimir and Estragon are Didi and Gogo respectively.

Ans: In the Holy Bible, Estragon saw the maps of the Holy Land with the dead sea of pale coloured water.

Ans: The Boy informed Vladimir and Estragon that Godot would come the next day.

Ans: Gogo's nightmares symbolize the various fears that the two tramps feel in this alienated world.

Ans: In Waiting for Godot, The two tramps symbolize the rootless and helpless people of the world. They also symbolize human beings who wait meaninglessly for some desired things that they may not get.

Ans: Pozzo symbolizes power and authority.

Ans: "Tree" representing the “Cross” in the setting of Waiting for Godot signifies hope.

Ans: ‘Godot’ may refer to God, eternal life, death or anything for which human beings wait eagerly.

Ans: In his blindness, Pozzo acquires the insight of the meaninglessness of time and human existence, the absurdity of clock and calendar.

Ans: Estragon's nickname is Gogo.

Ans: The mission of the Boy Messenger 1 is to deliver the message that Mr. Godot won't come that evening, but he would surely come the next day.

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Ans: Samuel Beckett is an Irish.

Ans: Pozzo-Lucky relationship indicates the relationship between the master and slave; the colonizer and the colonized; body and intellect etc.

Ans: Pozzo-Lucky relationship indicates the relationship between the master and the slave; the colonizer and the colonized; the body and the intellect etc.

Ans: Endless waiting is the lot of human beings. They eagerly wait for something or someone.

Ans: Estragon symbolizes the animal instinct in human beings. He is very much concerned with physical needs.

Ans: The name Vladimir symbolically means man’s intellectual or rational faculty.

Ans: In `Waiting for Godot' the major characters namely Vladimir and Estragon represent Russian and Hungarian nationalities respectively.

Ans: “Waiting for Godot” is an absurd play.

Ans: Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969.

Ans: The original French title of the play ‘Waiting for Godot’ is “En attendant Godot’’.

Ans: Existentialism is a modern philosophy of emphasizing on individual existence, freedom and choice.

Ans: An absurd drama is a form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence by employing disjointed, repetitious, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations, and plots that lack realistic or logical development.

Ans: Pozzo looks upon the tramps as two creatures who are much inferior to him. He barely recognizes them as belonging to the same species.

Ans: Pozzo philosophizes human life by saying that the moment of death is the same as the moment of birth. He says that a child goes straight to the grave immediately after its birth.

Ans: Lucky was being taken to be sold at a fair.

Ans: Pozzo belongs to Italy.

Ans: Estragon gives his name as ‘Adam’ as Pozzo to suggest that he represents entire humanity.

Ans: Pozzo chides Vladimir for his frequent reference to time. All times are equal to Pozzo.

Ans: Pozzo shouts for help because he is now blind and has stumbled and fallen down. 

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Ans: Godot may indicate God. It may indicate eternal life, death and someone/something for whom/ which human beings wait eagerly. Endless waiting is the lot of human beings. So, the title of the play is justified.

Ans: The title, ‘Waiting for Godot’ is justified in that human life is nothing but tirelessly waiting for somebody who may not come or something that may not happen.

Ans: Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot for two days.

Ans: There was only one messenger boy in “Waiting for Godot”.

Ans: Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969.

Ans: Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969.

Ans: Waiting for Godot was written in 1953 in French and translated into English in 1956.

Ans: Vladimir and Estragon were waiting for Godot on a lonely country road beside a tree.

Ans: Samuel Beckett belongs to Irish nation/Ireland.

Ans: Gogo and Didi represent body and soul respectively. So they cannot separate themselves.

Ans: Vladimir and Estragon could not leave the place because they were waiting for Godot.

Ans: Gogo and Didi Cannot separate themselves once and for all because they are the two aspects of human psyche.

Ans: To Estragon, time is meaningless because they pass time in the act of waiting for Godot but Godot doesn’t to them. Time passes but no change happens to them.

Ans: To Vladimir, Macon Country" refers to the Garden of Eden.