Waiting for Godot에 나타난 희망의 구조

TLDR: Waiting for Godot as mentioned in this paper is a play about the human condition that all human beings suffer this repeated delay of satisfaction and the reproduction of desire all their lives, and it is the last thing they choose to protect themselves from being fully aware of the cruel truth of life.

Abstract: Being emblematic of our big real world, Waiting for Godot shows how and why people cannot stop hoping until the end of time If Godot is the one who will provide what the two old tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, really desire, he seems to be ever beyond their reach No matter how uncertain whether he will come or not, they never give up waiting Godot is the promise that kindles their hope at every moment of despair We can notice Godot's absolute authority and control over them comes from his very absence In fact, this play was written to tell us about the human condition that all human beings suffer this repeated delay of satisfaction and the reproduction of desire all their lives What matters in this symbolic system is not how to make the signifier meaningful but how to prolong the unsatisfactory, meaningless time The characters in this play are about to be aware how empty these symbols are Since the gap between what man hopes for and what the world actually grants is the very essence of the social structure, the contradiction between those two will be never resolved Time has stopped for those who are worn out to watch all their labors have been sterile and still have their labors unfinished Nothing real ever happens and nothing ever changes One day is a duplicate of another The two act structure of the play presents this ontological structure of the human world Meaning cannot be found in the symbolic world And hope is definitely alien to the world of this play Every evening, however, the two men renew their weary and hopeless waiting That is, people make a compromise with the world and pretend they have meanings so that they can keep on hoping This play shows the habit of waiting is the last thing they choose to protect themselves from being fully aware of the cruel truth of life