As you read the play remember to view it completely from the lens of Post Modernism as we have discussed it in class.
1. The play IS NOT ABOUT NOTHING! Nor is it about how everything has meaning so therefore nothing has special meaning. Don't even go there. This might or might not keep you sane.
2. In relation to the first point, this play is definitely also not about the loss/death of God. That would imply that at one time we “had” God (something absolutely true that we could express through signs) in our lives in the first place.
3. The constant repetition in the play is to draw attention to the performance like aspects of what we call reality and how we rely on those to make and sustain meaning. Think of all the “constructed” things you do because of cultural/social/family/etc. Norms. If nothing were ever trepeated to us there would be no verbal or written language possible...or texts...or meta-narratives...or belief systems. So, that repetition is necessary for our survival, but it traps us and keeps us lost in the world of signs.
4. There is no resolution, no definition, but there IS something.
5. Always remember that Beckett said his favorite word was “perhaps.”
