Unfortunately, the answer is that they are waiting for Godot. I said to myself, He's all alone, he thinks I'm gone for ever, and he sings. Estragon wakes with a start, jumps up, casts about wildly. I must have thrown them away. But Beckett quickly mixes this comedy with Vladimir's deeply troubling and unexplained reference to corpses. I didn't get up in the night, not once! Cahiers du CRINI n°1, Création et crise en Europe, url: for-godot Cahiers du CRINI - Université de NantesNonwaiting for Godot: Fleeing Europe.
Pozzo sags between them, his arms round their necks. ) And that we should subordinate our good offices to certain conditions? There, don't move, and watch out. Pozzo says he waits until he can get up, and then he continues walking. What's wrong with you? Estragon begins to describe his dream, saying that he dreamt he was happy, but Vladimir angrily tells him not to describe his dream. They help him up again and hold him steady between them. Not only do the characters not know when they are, but they also don't know where they are. Vladimir takes off his hat (Lucky's), peers inside it, feels about inside it, shakes it, knocks on the crown, puts it on again. You don't remember any fact, any circumstance? We're in no danger of ever thinking any more. Note: The original French for "the Board" is "le plateau" and is a term for the dramatic stage. We are waiting for Godot to come .
But, after this brief entertainment they return to their usual activity of waiting and doing nothing. You're a hard man to get on with, Gogo. After what he did to me? You see, you've nothing to be afraid of. Vladimir says that he would have stopped Estragon from doing whatever he did to provoke the beating, but Estragon says he wasn't doing anything, and he doesn't know why he was beaten.
He says it would be better "to take advantage of Pozzo's calling for help. I'm asking you if it came on you all of a sudden. He can't remember what they did, but it was probably something pointless. Estragon asks what would happen if they "dropped" Godot. Would that be a good thing? I'll go and get a carrot.
You want me to pull off my trousers? But he soon desists and disposes himself for sleep, his arms on his knees and his head on his arms. Estragon says he looks "hideous, " and Vladimir asks if he looks more or less hideous than usual. I would have stopped you from doing whatever it was you were doing. Estragon loosens the cord that holds up his trousers which, much too big for him, fall about his ankles. But habit is a great deadener. The setting is the next day at the same time. Suppose we got up to begin with?
We have kept our appointment and that's an end to that. And you talk to me about scenery! Upon arrival, Lucky drops everything, falls, and brings Pozzo down with him. Estragon says it would be fun to try calling out different names, to see if Pozzo might respond, but Vladimir says that he is sure the man's name is Pozzo. He points to Lucky, who is motionless. But is it strong enough? Pozzo asks what time it is, and Estragon and Vladimir look at the sky, guessing seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Estragon and Vladimir poetically talk about "all the dead voices" they hear. I can't go on like this.