![]() Estragon makes one mighty effort and succeeds in pulling off one boot. In the meanwhile, Vladimir takes off his hat, peers inside it and then puts it on again. He again asks his friend to help him, reminding him at the same time to button up his fly. Estragon does not take much interest in his friend’s talk and tells him rather irritably to help him in the job of taking off his boots.Įstragon becomes desperate when his efforts to take off his boots prove futile. They ought to have jumped off Eiffel Tower in the nineties when they were presentable enough to be allowed up there. However, he admits that their struggle has been of no use. Vladimir takes credit for having stood his friend in good stead all these years. In answer to Vladimir’s question, Estragon mentions that he spent the last night in a ditch, and that some people beat him up as usual. Both the tramps express happiness at meeting each other again and voice the fear that they thought they had lost each other for good. Taking Estragon’s words in a larger sense, he expresses his agreement with them. After resting for a while he resumes but has to give up once again, exclaiming : “Nothing to be done.” In the meanwhile, Vladimir enters, walking with short, still steps. After trying to pull them off with both his hands he becomes exhausted and gives up the effort. There is a mound nearby, on which a tramp, Estragon, is sitting as the play opens.Įstragon is sitting on a low mound and trying to take off his boots. The tramps identify it differently as a shrub or a willow-tree. The setting for the act 1 is, as described by the playwright, a road in the countryside, by the side of which a tree is growing. Waiting for Godot Summary Waiting for Godot Act 1 Summary The tramps think that they ought to have committed suicide by throwing themselves down from it.Ī mountain range in France. Estragon tried to commit suicide by throwing himself into it.Ī steel monument in Paris. The region where the events of the play are supposed to take place.Ī river flowing through Germany etc. The region where Estragon and Vladimir used to work in the past. Pozzo responds when called by this name also. Pozzo is called by Estragon by this name.Īdam’s eldest son the first murderer in the world according to the Bible. ![]() He was murdered by his elder brother, Cain. The ‘Boy’ of the Second Act claims to be a different person.Ī Biblical character. A messenger boy who brings messages from Godot.
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