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Discuss the Ways in which Form and Visual Element of Waiting For Godot Reveal Beckett’s view of the Meaning of Existence. On the surface Waiting for Godot is a hopeless play and was summed up by Jean Anouilh ‘Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it is terrible’. However, Waiting for Godot is also a play primarily about hope in a hopeless situation. The act of waiting for hope to arrive. The subject of the …

…yet they continue to wait as they have faith and hope that one day Godot will come. They contemplate suicide but that would mean that they would not be there when Godot finally does arrive, this being the mutual goal of both men. There is no guarantee that even when Godot comes they will be saved but the hope that Godot will bring change to their lives is enough to empower them to keep waiting.