A Neo-Marxist reading of "Waiting for Godot" posits that Vladimir and Estragon’s futile wait is not an existential condition but a material one, reflecting the alienating logic of late capitalism. Their performance of "waiting" becomes a form of labor without production, while their cyclical, depleting routines embody the "wasting" of human potential under a system that renders action meaningless. The play thus critiques a socio-economic order that produces a crisis of meaning by severing individuals from the fruits of their actions, turning passivity into a revolutionary indictment of a system that values waiting over being.
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- Nirmal Gurung (Author), 2026, Waiting, Wasting, and the Crisis of Meaning. A Neo-Marxist Reading of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/1743380
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