QUESTIONS RELATED TO A SCENE IN THE PLAY

pages 53-63
I choose these pages because I found this conversation or scenes very confusing and couldn't tell if there is a purpose behind every word that the author used to describe the struggles of these two characters or not.
1. what is the significance of the tree in the play and why does it have leaves in act 2?
2. why is the tree green (indicating passage of time) whereas Gogo's wound is still festering? what does it mean?
3. what does estragon mean by 'no lack of void'?
4. why does the author not show Vladimir getting the carrot for estragon after he says he will? is there any specific reason for Vladimir being the one offering food to Gogo?
5. what does estragon mean by 'to give us the impression we exist'?
6. why is Vladimir curious about Lucky's hat?
7. why does Vladimir show relief when he realizes that they are in the 'right place' after seeing Lucky's hat?
8. why does Vladimir choose to play Lucky and not Pozzo? what are the connections in his and Lucky's character?
9. what was the intension of the author by putting the idea of estragon's dreaming and why does he never reveal them in the play?
10. why doesn't Vladimir want to know about the dreams?
11. what is the purpose of taking off the hat and inspecting it, signify in the play?
12. what does Vladimir mean by ' when you seek you hear...that prevents you from thinking'?
13. why does Vladimir mention seeing corpses? what does he mean by it?
14. by having all this conversation, are they trying to pass the endless time in the wait of Godot or is there any other specific message that the author wanted to convey?
15. what do estragon and Vladimir mean when they say, ' a relaxation...a recreation'?

Additional analysis of Vladimir

In the play, Vladimir seems to be smarter than Estragon. He is always thinking and wondering about things like when he is thinking about the four thieves. He also is very restless in the play. He is always standing and running to and fro from the tree in the search and wait of Godot unlike Gogo who not only sits but also dozes off. Didi seems to also have manners as compared to Gogo, for instances, when Gogo asks Pozzo to give them money, he replies that they are not beggars and he doesn’t take any interest in the bones when Estragon takes them to eat or in any food since throughout the play Gogo is the one that eats out of the pair. He is always lost in thoughts and continuously thinking like about redemption and being saved by Godot which shows that he has a burden of thoughts. He also tries Lucky’s hat and when Pozzo asks what they would like Lucky to do, he replies that he would like him to think. In act 1, Didi doesn’t remember where they were to meet Godot and if they had been there the day before. In act 2, he is the one that remembers that they were there the day before and had met some strange people but no one else remembers.  He is in search of answers and hope. He wonders about time when he sees Pozzo being blind and not knowing the time. He and Gogo really don’t know how to kill the time they have on their hands which may indicate that them waiting for Godot is actually filling up the void that they have. That void which is time, time which represents their lives without purpose other than ‘Waiting For Godot’. 

THE ANALYSIS OF VLADIMIR'S CHARACTER

In the play, Vladimir seems to be smarter than Estragon. He is always thinking and wondering about things like when he is thinking about the four thieves. He also is very restless in the play. He is always standing and running to and fro from the tree in the search and wait of Godot unlike Gogo who not only sits but also dozes off. Didi seems to also have manners as compared to Gogo, for instances, when Gogo asks Pozzo to give them money, he replies that they are not beggars and he doesn’t take any interest in the bones when Estragon takes them to eat or in any food since throughout the play Gogo is the one that eats out of the pair. He is always lost in thoughts and continuously thinking like about redemption and being saved by Godot which shows that he has a burden of thoughts. 

Waiting for Godot

1) The video ‘Power of 10’ basically shows us the human understanding and discoveries made so far in regards to the universe. If we think about it, it also shows the limit of our understanding of the universe and Godot. We can’t see him yet there is constant need for people around the world of different faiths to believe that he exists. Human beings have made so many extraordinary discoveries but the question of God might be the most controversial. Does he exist or not, if he does why is there so much hate in the world and if he doesn't, where does that leave mankind and the their existence, and why do we still sometime hope that there be a greater power out there somewhere who can listen to our prayers when we face hardships.  

2) After watching the play, I got to look more into what each character represented. And the closest that I could get to understanding Pozzo and Lucky was that Pozzo represented pleasure in materialistic things and Lucky represented sadness and insanity of life. For instance, Pozzo likes entertaining himself by making Lucky dance and making him think or speak out his thoughts. And Lucky on the hand, his absurdity can be determined by his thoughts when he was told to speak and he makes no sense.

3) Didi seems to be the more sensible (being the intellect and mind) out of the bunch whereas Gogo (being the body) is a bit slower and dumb in figuring things out and it most likely that Gogo could not make it on his own without Didi. It kind of represented the how a body would be without a mind or conscious.

4) The two keep talking about waiting for god because they seem to think that he might be able to save them. In the meantime, they also talk about their lives and how the two have been friends for a long, and sometimes think that maybe they should try living without each other. They also talk about hanging themselves when they would, at times, become hopeless in the wait for God.

5) Didi and Gogo represent how life of a human being is. All humans at some or all phases of life have an inner struggle or search of who they are. We struggle in regards to things we believe, search and understand. There is always a part of us that at times contradicts how we act and what we should do. So that is why I believe that a lot of our lives are like that of Gogo and Didi.

6) The play is about friendship. Even though Didi and Gogo at times think that they should live without one another because sometimes they can’t stand each other they care and stay together. It is also about hope, since they have never seen Godot and yet they believe, hope and wait for him because they hope he will save them. And it is also about life itself, basically the play I pointing at the question that no one seems to have a right answer to. What is life and how different people find their own way of living it. As we can take Pozzo as an example as he finds his pleasures in having Lucky to entertain him and serve him so that he won’t be lonely.

7) I think that the play itself was not cynical. However there are parts where it does show how there may be parts of a human beings life where they may act cynical. For example when Gogo and Didi meet Pozzo and when Pozzo needs help, Gogo decides that they will help him if he pays them money. There are a lot of things that make us insecure. It maybe the way we look, who we are, what we represent, about our futures, about our careers, overall about life. Then flipside to this however, is security which I think is good but also may come with some other features. Like, arrogance, ego, and pride. I’m not necessarily saying that everyone would be like that but there is a probability that one could behave like that.