Lezing 2 : Deconstructie van de literaire interpretatie Essay on
Waiting for Godot (by Michael Sinclair) The purpose of human
life is an unanswerable question. It seems impossible to find an
answer because we don't know where to begin looking or whom to
ask. Existence, to us, seems to be something imposed upon us by
an unknown force. There is no apparent meaning to it, and yet we
suffer as a result of it. The world seems utterly chaotic. We
therefore try to impose meaning on it through pattern and
fabricated purposes to distract ourselves from the fact that our
situation is hopelessly unfathomable. "Waiting for Godot" is a
play that captures this feeling and view of the world, and
characterizes it with archetypes that symbolize humanity and its
behaviour when faced with this knowledge. According to the play,
a human being's life is totally dependant on chance, and, by
extension, time is meaningless; therefore, a human's life is
also meaningless, and the realization of this drives humans to
rely on nebulous, o