Waiting for Godot Forum

does godot symbolize god?

I'd say that's debatable, but the author, Samuel Beckett, said very emphatically that Godot  is not God, does not symbolise God, and that "Waiting For Godot" was not meant to have religious meaning.

Also, just a note, it's often interpreted as such because "Godot" is actually pronounced "GOD-o."

Beckett is believed to have said that the name Godot comes from the French "godillot" meaning a military boot. Beckett fought in the war and so spending long periods of time waiting for messages to arrive would have been commonplace for him. The more common interpretation that it might mean "God" is almost certainly wrong. Beckett apparently stated that if he had meant "God," he would have written "God".

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The short answer is 'no'.

Or perhaps 'non'.

Always remember that Beckett was an Irishman writing in France . In French. In 1948.


I'd rate it somewhere in my all time top ten literary works ( that is including writing by Shakespeare, Milton and Cervantes ).

no waiting for godot was written in french so godot which is the only word not translated in the play means boot