comment on waiting for godot as an absurd drama?

Waiting for godot is one of
the masterpieces of Absurdist literature. Elements of Absurdity for making this play are
so engaging and lively. Beckett combats the traditional notions of Time. It attacks the
two main ingredients of the traditional views of Time, i.e. Habit and Memory. We find
Estragon in the main story and Pozzo in the episode, combating the conventional notions
of Time and Memory. For Pozzo, particularly, one day is just like another, the day we
are born indistinguishable from the day we shall die.

The
above mentioned discussion allows us to call “Waiting for
Godot” as an absurd drama for not only its plot is loose
but its characters are also just mechanical puppets with their incoherent colloquy. And
above than all, its theme is unexplained. “Waiting for
Godot” is an absurd play for it is devoid of
characterization and motivation. Though characters are present but are not recognizable
for whatever they do and whatever they present is purposeless. So far as its dialogue
technique is concerned, it is purely absurd as there is no witty repartee and pointed
dialogue. What a reader or spectator hears is simply the incoherent babbling which does
not have any clear and meaningful ideas. So far as the action and theme is concerned, it
kisses the level of Absurd drama.