Chance in Waiting for Godot

Chance in Waiting for Godot Chance plays a major role in Samuel Beckett’s tragic comedy “Waiting for Godot”. In human life, chance rather than reason is the main influence on our lives. According to Beckett, life of humans is completely dependent on chance and as a result of this time would be meaningless. Chance has an impact on the value of time and it is also the underlying factor behind existence. In “Waiting for …

…Godot” is a tragic comedy about the world, the way it is based on chance and the effect chance has on human life. A world purely based on chance has no orderly time sequence, and as an extension has no meaning. If time has no meaning, as a result, life would have no meaning. Humans therefor have to rely on a greater unknown force to provide them with a meaning. Godot is such a force.