Is Waiting for Godot a comedy or tragedy?

The English edition of “Waiting for Godot”, published in 1956 describes the play as a “tragicomedy” in two acts. There are many dialogues, gestures, situations and actions that are stuff of pure comedy. All musical devices are employed to create laughter in such a tragic situation of waiting.

What is the tragedy in Waiting for Godot?

In Waiting for Godot, the tragic element (in regards to time) is that Vladimir and Estragon are idle. They spend the entire play waiting around for another man. Anyone who has spent a long amount of time waiting on another person knows how torturous it can be.

How is Waiting for Godot comedic?

Waiting for Godot is a prime example of what has come to be known as the theater of the absurd. The play is filled with nonsensical lines, wordplay, meaningless dialogue, and characters who abruptly shift emotions and forget everything, ranging from their own identities to what happened yesterday.

What are the comic elements in Waiting for Godot?

Vladimir and Estragon—who call each other Gogo and Didi—are clearly derived from the pairs of cross-talk comedians of English music-halls. Their dialogue has the peculiar repetitive quality of the cross-talk of comedians’ patter: Estragon.

What are the absurd characteristics found in Waiting for Godot?

“Waiting for Godot” fulfills every requirement of an absurd play. It has no story, no characterization, no beginning nor any end, unexplained themes, imitation of dreams and nightmares and above all it contains useless dialogues.

What is the significance of title of play of Waiting for Godot?

So throughout their lives, human beings wait for something and Godot simply represents the objective of their waiting- an event, a thing, a person, death etc. Samuel Beckett has in this play depicted a situation which has a great human application.