Word: estragon
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WAITING FOR GODOT is about immobility. Vladimir and Estragon sit in a place which is essentally nowhere; they entertain or bore one another; they sit. Like the street people who haunt the Square because there's no place for them to go, Vladimir and Estragon have internalized inevitability of inactivity. "Nothing to be done," when incanted as often as a mantra, can be cerily comforting. The dilemma of two tramps, waiting for a man who will not come, is our dilemma, too. And we remain waiting because the possibility of meaning, or of reason, or of order, is so seductive...
...Estragon: Why don't we hang ourselves...
...Estragon: You say we have to come back tomorrow...
...Estragon: I can't go on like this...
...records the pain of existence. "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops." So says Pozzo, the slavedriver, the pig, the spokesman for a decaying, overburdened, but strangely charming establishment. "There is no lack of void," says Estragon, cap-turing in his words the twentiethcentury's ironic understanding of time and space. And the agony, the anomic, the anxiety, the sheer numbing ignorance of existence is what impassions Vladimir's shriek to an unhearing universe...