Waiting for Godot comparason to The Outsider
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In both Waiting for Godot and The Outsider, the characters live a somewhat meaningless life without a sense of morality in mind. In the play both characters depend on eachother without really ever realizing that. It is evident that there are significant differences and similarities between the characters in Waiting for Godot and the main character in The Outsider. Vladimir and Estragon are lonely men who want nothing more but to make something of themselves in their lives, and believe by waiting for this man, Godot, that their will be meaning in their life.
In the play Waiting for Godot, both men are waiting for something that never comes. They are niaeve characters in the sense that they try to express the inexpressible. Estragon is one of the two protagonists. He is a bum and sleeps in a ditch where he is beaten each night. He has no memory beyond what is immediately said to him, and relies on Vladimir to remember for him. Estragon is impatient and constantly wants to leave Vladimir, but does not by the fact that he needs Vladimir...