/lit/ - Literature

You could read it in 2-3 hours and judge for yourself.

>reading it

just watch it on youtube. it's mildly amusing when it actually makes sense, but no way I'm reading that shit.

>>16500940
it's fun and cute

>>16500949
Tbqh I read the first 50 pages, fucking swallowed it, and then it started being excruciating when the guy started "thinking" out loud.
Then I realised that I'm doing this for a class I don't like and that I have no idea what to write about it, my notes make zero sense. Call me a brainlet all you want but I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to get out of the book.

>unable to read a two-act play
Anon...

>>16501175
It's not that I can't read it it's just that I'm not sure what I'm supposed to think of it. This is my constant problem with books. I mean I can't say much about it and then I fall into this rabbit hole of self-conscioussness because I feel like I'm missing something even though I have a solid memory, so I am asking. What the fuck is it about this book that made my college proffesor assign it to me to write godknows what about it?
The whole book reminds me of my brother's shitpost-like humor. Like I'm halfway through it, and I can't tell you shit about it.
I've had psychological tests, back when I was institutionalised a couple years ago, they said I'm not retarded - so what the fuck am I doing so wrong?
Like I'm genuinely desperate for help.

>>16501210
Every time I've sat down to watch it on youtube I fall asleep halfway through. But the joke is that godot never actually shows up, right? That the two men have a goal and a purpose that can never be achieved. An Other they believe will solve all their worldly problems if they perform specific actions. I believe the message is that any given higher power, ideology, or concept is never truly achievable or knowable. The concept itself drives men to do things, even if the thing itself doesn't exist. Ideas are powerful things. It's almost camus' absurd. There is no explicit meaning to life and yet we spend all our time attempting to find it.

Have you ever waited at a bus stop, only to find out that the bus was early so you missed it, and the next bus broke down, and the third bus is late? Like, it would have been easier to walk or call an uber, but at that point you have sunk so much time into the idea of waiting for a bus that you refuse to do anything else?

Anyway anon, the essay you are looking for is on the internet somewhere and you should go read what actual smart people who know the historical context of the play have to say about it. I'm just a shitposter that read the wiki before I fell asleep to the play.

>>16501276
I thought that maybe I can write a good essay if I ponder about it long enough, but all I'm getting is an existential dread. I would consider suicide at this point if I wasn't so afraid of hell.
I tried to avoid critics and what smarter people have to say about it up untill I read it in it's entirety, and I thought that maybe I'm just reading it wrong and y'all can help me.

>>16501142
>I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to get out of the book
You're supposed to watch it, ya dip. It's a play.

>>16500940
With Godot, it really helps a lot to see a good performance. The dialogue might seem dry or pointless, but it is by turns engaging, hilarious and moving when delivered by skilled actors.

>>16501403
>>16501419
I kind of thought it was funny since I could definitely imagine it being said by some people I know but ok I will watch it.

>>16501210
>Like I'm genuinely desperate for help.

Really, the gist of it is, what if you put two characters, like say Laurel and Hardy, in a bleak, existential landscape. And that landscape is, really, the world that we live in.

Just add this thought to the advice from the other anons on this thread.

Beckett loved silent comedy, and he loved Laurel and Hardy -- and you can see that reflected the sight gags and the banter in Godot. Mind you, that's *not* the interpretative key to the whole work, but it is a part of it.

>>16500940
I’ve never seen anyone complain about it. I’m actually surprised I don’t see it posted here more often since I’m sure I actually read it in AP English in Highschool

>>16501433
Ah, thanks anon.

>>16501142
>>16501210
Plays are meant to be performed, maybe it'll be more available to you in the intended form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5zoztwfs40
It really is quite humorous

>>16501276
I will also admit my interpretation lacks some knowledge, but when I began to view the play as a metaphor for how most of us live our lives, doing the same things day-by-day waiting patiently for a distant that might not ever come, it started to make more sense.

>>16500940
The answer is no to everything you think godot is. That's the faggy way this play has endured. Similar to judge holden but shittier.

It's boring and trite!
>Hurr but le meaning is so deep!
It was painful to read and after seeing clips of "good" enactments, I consider it a low form of art for college midwits

>>16500940
Nuclear-level blackpill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5zoztwfs40

>Are you not done bothering me with your accursed Time? It's abominable
>When? When?
>One day. Is that not enough for you?
>One day like any other day.
>One day he went dumb
>One day I went blind
>One day we were born
>One day we shall die
>The same day, the same second
>Is that not enough for you?
>They give birth astride of a grave
>The light gleams an instant
>Then it's night once more
>ON