Waiting for Godot Suffering Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Act.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue.
| Quote #1 VLADIMIR |
Waiting for Godot presents suffering as a regular, expected part of daily life.
| Quote #2 VLADIMIR |
Estragon and Vladimir both have a case of chronic pain. Again, when we see the play as an allegory, it is a statement that pain is a necessary part of the human condition.
| Quote #3 Vladimir breaks into a hearty laugh which he immediately stifles, his hand pressed to his pubis, his face contorted. |
That Vladimir feels pain when he laughs is a cruel joke, but representative of the play’s nature as a tragicomedy. Tragicomedy should mean a marriage of the tragic and the comic, but Waiting for Godot goes one step further in suggesting that the tragedy (in this case, the pain) is the result of the comedy (in this case, Vladimir’s laughter).
