... and deal with it (s)he does, creating meaning all around us. Yet that is just it, it is all created - none of it is 'real' - in the sense that God once was. We are only aware of our existence in relation to nothingness, one cannot exist without the other, and it is this basic polarity which we live out every day in millions of different forms. The role 'of absurdist drama is not solely to depress audience with negativity, but an attempt to bring them closer to reality and may help them understand their own "meaning" in life, whatever that may be. So, to understand Waiting for Godot locating it within this historical atmosphere of absurdity and nothingness is imperative. The play is inherently lacking in meaning, in terms of what actually happens and is said, it is only when the play is looked at ...

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