the significance of tree in pinter's godot?

In Samuel Becket's Waiting
for Godot tree is an important symbol. Many critics are
of the opinion that tree represents Cross in which Jesus Christ is crucified. If we take
tree as cross then there is a hidden meaning which Becket is trying to bring. Christ
died on the cross in order to redeem the people but for Valdimir and Estragon it is a
tree which misleads them. By waiting there under the tree they don't get any salvation
but only confusion.

This tree also symbolises the cross in
which two thieves who have died with Jesus. One thief get salvation at the last minute.
Are they waiting for the last minute repentance? The question is unanswered. We also see
in the second day of their waiting there are four or five leaves. This indeed a symbol
of hope but at the end of the play this has become 'hoping against hope'. In some of the
gospels the cross is been called as tree. If we take that into account tree represents
cross.

If we take this argument very seriously Godot is
God. Then the belief we have in God is absurd. Just like the the drama is absurd tree
also is absurd