The Muslim Brotherhood

seeing Myself in m lag for Godot  Some people wondered wherefore in high school my favorite book was Waiting for Godot, a drama described on the title page as a two-act play in which nonhing happens twice. In fact, my liking a play that does not portray a series of connected incidents telling a story provided instead presents a pattern of images showing bewildered people in an incomprehensible universe initially baffled me too, as my partiality was more felt than thought. But then I read a piece by the critic Martin Esslin, who articulate my feelings. He wrote in The Search for the Self that  throughout our lives we continuously reckon for something, and Godot  simply represents the objective of our time lagâ€"an event, a thing, a  person, death. It is in the act of waiting that we experience the  flow of time in its purest most evident form. (31)  I realized that I was seventeen in high school passively waiting for something amazing to happen to me just like Vladimir and Estragon. I similarly realized that experiencing time flowing by unproductively was not for me regardless of how pure that experience might be. At some(prenominal) points in the play, Estragon states that he wants to leave, but Vladimir invariably responds, We croupt . . . were waiting for Godot (8).

Neither one knows wherefore the wait nor who Godot is or looks like, and they both admit, when asked by Pozzo why they mistook him for Godot, that we merely know him at all (20). Yet, they wait for him instead of smell within themselves for meaning in their lives. They even turn to close-at-hand sources just about them to provide reasons for their wait: from inside a hat or a boot (8). But, as Lucky points out, the reasons [are] unknown and always will be (28). Therefore, their external search is pointless to pass around life meaning. Or put another way, Vladimir and Estragon wait endlessly for life to begin.  As simple as it is, I see myself in them, waiting for someone or something to bring down me meaning, to guide me, to...

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