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Waiting for Godot

We started to watch Waiting for Godot this week in class. Right now, I am still confused on what is going on. There hasn't been much value I have taken away from the play. If it is just more of the same then maybe there's a big metaphor I'm missing that I'll realize once the play is over and it was all the same nonsensical banter. The conversations are random and abrupt and seem to have no real value. The only thing that I think could have real deeper meaning right now is Lucky's speech, but even that was mostly nonsense filler words. I think Lucky was talking about God and how humans can only have an idea about God but not know exactly a conclusion about God. I think the word "waiting" has a lot of magnitude in the title and should be thought about deeper. One thing I was thinking was that " Nothing really happens when you wait. In waiting rooms, there are magazines or forms of entertainment to pass time. These things don't provide much value, ra...