Estragon: And if we dropped him? [Pause.] If we dropped him?Vladimir: He’d punish us. [Silence. He looks at the tree.] Everything’s dead but the tree.
The original French version of Waiting for Godot was written in Paris between October 1948 and January 1949. This was a time of mass migration in Europe, when a flood of displaced humanity washed across the continent. It was a time of refugees, ... (read more)