Samuel Beckett, the representative writer of absurdism, wrote
the work Waiting for Godot, which reveals the mental world and the human
condition of people after the Second World War.The drama demonstrates
the absurdity and the meaninglessness of life as well. Samuel Beckett gives
specific interpretation of absurdity, for example, the absurdity of time, memory,
language and behaviour. Existentialism would help people to think about how
to find a way out in the life of absurdity, which means to find the value of one’s
existence and the meaning of life. The two protagonists in Waiting for Godot
gradually lose their subjectivity during the long waiting. Therefore, people who
wait passively for the redemption of others could not gain the value of existence,
the only way is active exploration.