What is the significance of the tree in waiting for godot

Lucky never puts down the items he carries, except when Pozzo orders him to do something. He again picks it up without any reason. This action shows the human tendency of enslavement and burdens which are unnecessary. The relationship between Pozzo and Lucky is shown as capital and labor, master and slave, exploiter and exploited, between old testament God and new testament Christ.

Lucky is a slave for his master Pozzo. Lcuky is tied with rope, holding both master and slave together. This is the symbol of distance between the God and his slave. However, when the rope is short the distance between them is smaller. When Estragon and Viladimir try to hang themselves with cord and it breaks, and they remind themselves to bring rope tomorrow.

This rope has same purpose as for Pozzo and Lucky. While Estragon and Viladimir are waiting for Godot, they also wait for the nightfall. This nightfall shows that darkness is like a death and falling of night is like to reprieve from daily suffering as death is death to reprieve from life. Hat represents thinking, as the long monologue of Lucky in Act 1 and stops when his hat is knocked off. This scene is the representation of instability of individual identities and exchanging represents the exchange of identities.

The most important example of hidden meanings in the play is Godot, which is similar to God. Godot symbolizes salvation that religion promises but never comes true. But you can also think of the two men not as Jesus, but rather as the two thieves crucified along with Jesus.

Vladimir reports that he was told to wait for Godot by the tree. This should be reassuring — it means the men are in the right place. It kind of looks like a shrub. While Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot, they also wait for nightfall. The falling of night is as much a reprieve from daily suffering as death is from the suffering of a lifetime.

Estragon, in one of his "wicked smart" moments, comments the moon is "pale for weariness […] of climbing heaven and gazing on the likes of us.

And if the moon is weary just from watching, imagine what that says about the predicament of the men themselves. Repetition, banality, and a comically macabre subject matter? We think you can handle this one on your own. But we were interested in their disagreement over the vegetable: "Funny," Estragon comments as he munches, "the more you eat, the worse it gets.

On the other hand, the carrot could be about the meaning of life. Exclamation point! But it could be a hint as to the differences between the way Vladimir and Estragon live their lives. Estragon, on the other hand, wearies as time passes — much like the weary moon he observes in Act II.

When Pozzo later dishes about smoking, he claims that a second pipe is "never so sweet [as the first]. Beckett is believed to have said that the name Godot comes from the French "godillot" meaning a military boot. What is the conflict in Waiting for Godot? Even though it is not definite, there are implications that Vladimir knows more about Godot and is the one to remind Estragon of their destiny-that is, that they must wait for Godot.

Pozzo is a wealthy man, commanding attention. He treats his servant, Lucky, with contempt and heaps abuses on him. What do the boots represent in Waiting for Godot? The boots are a symbol of daily struggling — Estragon is constantly affected by his boots, always taking them off and putting them on but never makes a difference.

This parallels with the many day to day struggles we have but can't change. Why Waiting for Godot is in two acts? There are two messenger boys, two sets of characters and hence two acts. The two acts show two sides of the same character. Moreover, the two acts describe circular events which means the play could go on forever. What is Estragon repelled by? Estragon is repeatedly repelled by smells in Waiting for Godot.

It seems every time Estragon tries to get close to a person, he is repelled by their odor. What does Godot symbolize? Godot is like a pure-symbol which subsumes all the simplistic symbolic ideas that it can be said to represent.

And as Beckett would say, it has something to do with Estragon's boots.