LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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The world can be fully understood if people listen closely to what others are saying.
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Good things, including salvation, come to those who are patient.
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Redemption comes from surrendering to a higher power.
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People are fundamentally unable to realize any sort of inherent meaning in existence.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Similar to the absurdity of existence, Waiting for Godot explores the theme of the purposelessness of life. Because the protagonists seem to spend all of their time trying to meet Godot, who will never show up, it becomes clear that they will never fulfill their supposed purpose.
Detailed explanation-2: -They are in no particular time or place-nowhere and everywhere. Over two days they argue, get bored, clown around, repeat themselves, contemplate suicide, and wait. They’re waiting for the one who will never come. They’re waiting for Godot.
Detailed explanation-3: -To some, Godot stands for God. He is a weakened or diminutive form of the word God. The characters of the play wait for him so that he may deliver them from misery and suffering or from their miserable existence. Godot may therefore suggest the intervention of a supernatural agency.
Detailed explanation-4: -Love, Care, and Suffering In “Waiting, ” the story’s characters struggle to express love and care. The hospital staff have been taught a cold and alienating bedside manner, so they show no sympathy for the narrator’s repeated miscarriages.