Estragon (Gogo, Comes off as inferior to
Vladimir
Adam) Chronically poor memory
Struggles with his boots
Has to be told what to do
Spends most of his time
trying to fall asleep
Comes across as a
simpleton
Vladimir (Didi, Albert) Interchangeable with
Estragon
comes off as more
intellectual
alpha male
better memory, more
logical
Estragon depends on him
for his life
Lucky Pozzo’s slave
Abused physically and
verbally
Made to work to point of
exhaustion
Denied any opportunity to
act of his own accord
Pozzo Tyrannical, cruel, focused
only on himself
Seems to possess some
sort of mystical
Estragon mistakes him for
Godot
Begs us to compare
Pozzo and Godot
Defective memory
helpless
, Boy Messenger who says he
represents Godot
Appears briefly in act 1
and 2 to tell V and E that
Godot has postponed his
meeting with them
In act 2: claims he is not
the same boy from act 1
But Beckett mentions only
one boy
Godot Not really a character
Name had G-O-D in it
Beckett stated Godot was
not supposed to represent
God
Godot: French word for
army boot
Waiting V and E wait for Godot to
arrive but he never comes
At end of play audience
can deduce that they will
stay there and wait
Choices Depicted by two men
unable to act, move, or
think in any significant
way
While they kill time waiting
for Godot the characters
fail to realise that the act
of waiting is a choice
They view it as a
mandatory part of their
routine
Vladimir
Adam) Chronically poor memory
Struggles with his boots
Has to be told what to do
Spends most of his time
trying to fall asleep
Comes across as a
simpleton
Vladimir (Didi, Albert) Interchangeable with
Estragon
comes off as more
intellectual
alpha male
better memory, more
logical
Estragon depends on him
for his life
Lucky Pozzo’s slave
Abused physically and
verbally
Made to work to point of
exhaustion
Denied any opportunity to
act of his own accord
Pozzo Tyrannical, cruel, focused
only on himself
Seems to possess some
sort of mystical
Estragon mistakes him for
Godot
Begs us to compare
Pozzo and Godot
Defective memory
helpless
, Boy Messenger who says he
represents Godot
Appears briefly in act 1
and 2 to tell V and E that
Godot has postponed his
meeting with them
In act 2: claims he is not
the same boy from act 1
But Beckett mentions only
one boy
Godot Not really a character
Name had G-O-D in it
Beckett stated Godot was
not supposed to represent
God
Godot: French word for
army boot
Waiting V and E wait for Godot to
arrive but he never comes
At end of play audience
can deduce that they will
stay there and wait
Choices Depicted by two men
unable to act, move, or
think in any significant
way
While they kill time waiting
for Godot the characters
fail to realise that the act
of waiting is a choice
They view it as a
mandatory part of their
routine
