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After reading Waiting for Godot, it seemed that the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon didn't accomplish anything through the entire book. Yet, when looking at the book through an existentialism view, the characters are portraying what the true meaning of like really means. The use of repetition as a distraction from truth, fate, chaos on earth and time all show the true meaning of human life on earth. The continual attempt to place meaning …

…life, we create a life for ourselves through repetition, an underlying there throughout the book. Vladimir and Estragon are two hopeless humans, like all other humans on earth, who try, with no avail, to find the root of human existence and what it really means. Yet, they have the same goal in life, to wait for Godot. Like Estragon and Vladimir, the everyday human existence is the same, and we too wait for our "Godot"