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We as people do not take comfort in the strange and forbidding. Because of this, we try to find explanations or personal connections to everything in our experiences. It thus follows that any theatregoer will make an attempt to put the work in front of him or her into familiar terms, much to the dismay of a one Samuel Beckett. His attitude towards critics who attempt to impose values and ideas onto his work (on …

…his own hands and make something of it, both of them would be able to lead a normal life, but instead they both put their lives in the hands of Godot. Beckett himself was raised a devout Christian, but gave it up after an intense examination of all the implications that such an affiliation had (the Second World War, for example). We might all do well to re-examine our beliefs; Are you waiting for Godot?