Comment on the tittle Waiting for Godot.

We have been told that those who 'stand and wait' also
serve God. The two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, in Samuel Beckett's play,
Waiting for Godot, stand and wait, not for God but for Godot. They
do not serve anybody. Do they? In Beckett's 2-act play, Didi(Vladimir) &
Gogo(Estragon) wait and wait all day long for a certain Godot to come. At the end of the
day, they are told that Godot would come the next day. A to-day is followed by a
tomorrow which is another to-day, and again the two tramps are told that Godot would
come the day after. Beckett's play thus allegorises on the futility of man's waiting in
a world where all promises are perpetually deferred.

In
1935, T.S.Eliot wrote a commissioned play on the theme of Christian
martyrdom--Murder in the Cathedral--in which the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Thomas Beckett, had been waiting to be martyred in the cathedral itself. For
Thomas Becket it was waiting for God. Samuel Beckett's play could be seen as an
existentialist parody of that other Becket's waiting, waiting for Godot being waiting
for nothing. After the massive and extensive destructions of the two Great Wars, men can
only stand and wait at the center of paralysis, doing nothing, getting nothing,
begetting nothing.In my reading of Beckett's play, I rediscover those immortal lines
spoken by Macbeth:'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from
day to day.....'