Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett

 Samuel Beckett(1906-89)

Playwright, poet,novelist and 1969 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Samuel Beckett was born in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock on Good Friday, April 13, 1906 to prosperous Irish -Protestant parents. That he was born on a Good Friday seemed singularly appropriate for a man who subsequently became obsessed with crucifixion and the sheer bad luck of human experience.

 Samuel was the younger of the two sons of a well-to-do bourgeois family. His father , William Beckett, was a successful businessman and an active sportsman an, interest that his younger son inherited. Samuel's mother, May, was a fiercely independent woman whose main passions were animals and gardening . According to him, "I had a happy childhood .. although I had little talent for happiness. My parents did everything to make a child happy . But I was often lonely."

Two men ,Vladimir and Estragon,meet near a tree. They converse on various topics and reveal that  they are waiting there for a man named Godot. While they wait, two other men enter. Pozzo is on his way to the market to sell his slave,Lucky. He pauses for a while to converse with  Vladimir and Estragon. Lucky entertains them by dancing and thinking, and Pozzo and Lucky leave.

After Pozzo and Lucky leave. a boy enters and tells Vladimir that he is a messenger from Godot He tells Vladimir that Godot will not be coming tonight. but that he will surely come tomorrow. Vladimir asks him some questions about Godot and the boy departs. After his departure Vladimir and Estragon decide to leave but they do not move as the curtain falls . 

The next night Vladimir and Estragon again meet near the tree to wait for Godot . Lucky and Pozzo  enter again, but this time Pozzo enter again , but this time Pozzo is blind and Lucky and Pozzo enter again, but this time Pozzo is blind and. Lucky is dumb . Pozzo does not remember meeting the two men the night before. They leave and Vladimir and Estragon continue to wait.

Shortly after, the boy enters and once again tells Vladimir that Godot will not be coming .He insists that he did not speak to Vladimir yesterday . After he leaves, Estragon and Vladimir decide to leave ,but again they do not move as the curtain falls,ending the Play.