Line #15 YMMV/WaitingForGodot


1	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Given how open the meanings of ''anything'' in the play are left, almost ''any'' interpretation of anything in the play can fall under this trope.
2	** The boy in act two is the first boy's brother,
3	** The messenger boy is Godot,
4	** Pozzo is Godot,
5	** ''Lucky'' is Godot, and
6	** There never was a Godot.
7	* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Despite many critics' interpretations, Beckett did not intend Godot to represent God. [[MindScrew Probably]]. Others theorize that the play represents a kind of Hell or purgatory.
8	* ItWasHisSled: Considering the play's defining place in the post-modern movement, it's well known now that Godot never comes.
9	* MemeticMutation: "That's how it is on this bitch of an earth." [[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote by Pozzo that became inexplicably popular when accompanied by a piece of fetish art depicting an [[{{Testosterone Poisoning}} extremely muscular]] version of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi]]. The fanart with the caption became a common subject for parody, often juxtaposing the quote with other images of buff characters.[[/labelnote]]
10	* NightmareFuel: The infamous part where Didi and Gogo discuss the voices of spirits, displeased by both life and death.
11	* OlderThanTheyThink: People waiting for the title character to show up, but he never does and probably never will, and the cast must decide whether or not they will take control of their own lives instead? Sounds a lot like 1935 play ''Waiting For Lefty'' by Clifford Odets. Of course Odets' play was otherwise completely different, an up-to-the-minute social drama with a large ensemble and many flashbacks.
12	* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Series/{{Bottom}}'', amazingly (particularly from their West End production of it). It features Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Christopher Ryan, who played (respectively) Rick, Vyvyan and Mike in ''Series/TheYoungOnes''. Go figure! Further screwed around with by the early '90s production with Rick and Ade... and Christopher playing Lucky!
13	* TearJerker: The end of the second act, as Vladimir begins to realize that no one remembers the day before except him, or worse -- that no one ''cares'' about anything that happens -- that the same is going to happen tomorrow, with little relevant to give himself or anything else any real presence. He's left begging the messenger boy to acknowledge seeing him, just to have someone affirm that he in some small way matters.
14	** The play itself counts as this. Beckett's theater work became even ''more'' abstract as he went on.
15	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The play is on some fifth-grade reading lists because the words aren't very complicated. Even though it makes no freaking sense even to adults. In a way, this is actually worse than showing kids something violent or sexual — how do you explain to a child that she got an F on her analysis of the play because she said it was about two people waiting for Godot? They also discuss hanging themselves so they can get an erection. The only reason they don't is because the rope breaks.
16	* TheWoobie: Poor, poor Lucky...
17	** Arguably, everybody in the play.
18	** Out of the main two (Didi and Gogo), Estragon seems to be slightly more of a Woobie, mainly because he also routinely gets beaten by some unseen gang.

Context YMMV / WaitingForGodot