Waiting for Godot (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Absurdist
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Genres: Existential literature, Drama, Absurdist literature, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Roads, streets, or highways, Alienation, Tramps or hoboes, Life, philosophy of, Time, Allusions
Places Discussed
Country road. Unnamed road, alongside which Vladimir and Estragon await the arrival of Godot. No clues are given to identify the location, whose terrain is a flat and unbroken plain to the distant horizon. In a ditch nearby, Estragon has spent the night, despite beatings by an unknown “they.” In effect, the road stretches to and from nowhere in particular, although Pozzo says he is leading his servant, Lucky, down the road to a fair. Pozzo’s claim that he owns the land is not necessarily true. Although Vladimir refers to past experiences together atop the...
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