Introduction Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot stands as a defining work of the Theatre of the Absurd, challenging audiences and critics alike since its debut in 1953. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot stands as a defining work of the Theatre of the Absurd, a dramatic movement that emerged in the aftermath of World War II. Absurdism explores the conflict between humans’ desire to find inherent meaning in life and the universe’s apparent indifference to this search. In Waiting for Godot, Beckett uses...