... I would have said so in this play" - was Beckett's own response when asked about the identity of 'Godot'. Though critics and public alike tend to impose an allegorical or symbolic explanation of 'Godot', 'Godot" remains an enigma. If we turn to the description of the absent but ubiquitous 'Godot', we find that the two tramps wait for 'Godot' in a state of twilight, occasionally lit up by a fleeting vision of the rescuer. They have vague fantasies of being taken to his farm and being able to "sleep, warm and dry, with a full stomach - on straw." But in the play, 'Godot' seems to be a kind of distant mirage. At the end of each day, a boy messenger arrives in his stead with the promise he will definitely come to-morrow. In the first Act, we learn that he does not beat the boy-messenger, who is a ...

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