In addition to interdependence, Beckett also highlights the theme of fate: what if our lives were completely different if we never met? ("when you think of the beauty of the way") Would not it be more rational, more successful? We witness two pairs of gentlemen with very complex and odd long-term relations (50-60 years) ("There are times when I wonder if it wouldn't be better for us to part", Estragon tells Vladimir). Do the characters seek the salvation from an unbearable sense of absurd (endlessly waiting in vain for something they are not even sure exists) in such queer interdependence? Who suffers more master or slave, who is more dependent and more vulnerable? "I am asking you if we are tied? - Tied? but to whom? by whom?"īeckett raises a question: how can a man crave for his slavery as it was a sort of salvation? ("why doesn't he make himself comfortable? - he doesn't want to", "do you want to get rid of him? - I do"). More precisely, it is about power and interdependence - the complex relation between master and slave (it is clearly evident on relations between Pozzo and Lucky). We may admit that, among other things, Beckett thoroughly focuses on the subject of power. However, the main themes of the play are rather controversial and questionable. Waiting for Godot was written precisely after the World War II, and it is a commonplace to link the Theatre of the Absurd with the postwar trauma and disgust, a somewhat attempt to get rid of an acute sense of shame.
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