Man's endless pursuit of an elusive destination in samuel beckett’s waiting for godot

Abstract

Backett’s characters continue onwards the vain pursuit of destination because they have no alternative but to go on.  This is the way of life that no one can cure the pains of life, so they must be endured.  The man is struggling with the jest of humanity and is constantly trying to make sense of his own existence as a human being.  Estragon addresses Vladimir, “we always find something, eh, Didi, to give us the impression that we exist?”(Beckett,60) It seems as if a human being cannot be beyond this mere impression of existence. It is the winding wheel of time that induces uncontrollable restlessness and anguish in the characters, such that they, without inhibition go on moving directionless and tread the dissolving line between remembering and forgetting, between past and present, between happiness and sorrow.  Shorn of vitality, they are constantly haunted by the past and its, present manifestations in the form of reminiscences regrets and yearnings.