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Kim, HeerahBeing emblematic of our big real world,Waiting for Godotshowshow and why people cannot stop hoping until the nd of time. If Godotis the one who will provide what he two ld tramps, Vladimir andEstragon, really desire, he sems to be ever beyond their reach. No matterhow uncertain whether he will come or not, they never give up waiting.Godot is the promise that kindles their hope at every moment of despair.We can notice Godot's absolute authority and control over them comesfrom his very absence. In fact, this play was written to tel us about thehuman condition that al human beings suffer this repeated elay ofsatisfaction and the reproduction of desire al their lives. What mattersinthis symbolic system is not how to make the signifier meaningful but howto prolong the unsatisfactory, meaningles time.The characters in this play are about o be aware how empty thesesymbols are. Since the gap betwen what man hopes for and what heworld actualy grants is the very esence of the social structure, thecontradiction betwen those two will be never esolved. Time has toppedfor those who are worn out to watch al their labors have ben sterile andstill have their labors unfinished. Nothing real ever happens and nothingever changes. One day is a duplicate of another. The two act structure ofthe play presents this ontological structure of the human world.Meaning cannot be found in the symbolic world. And hope is

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