Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett. The meaning of life and existentialism, significance of setting and structure.

At Face value waiting for Godot could be called a simple play. It uses a basic setting consisting of a tree and a road; it is repetitive in its structure and character pairing. It is an uncomplicated play with no established plot, at face value Waiting for Godot could be described as a play about nothing. The substance of Waiting for Godot lies within the ideas and themes of the play, behind this front of simplicity and nothingness. It is a question which has never ceased to pervade mankind; the meaning of life.
A very simplistic setting is used in Waiting for Godot. We know very little a…