Covid-19 as Metaphor for The Waiting for Godot

 Table of Contents

Hypothesis    3

Introduction    3

Covid-19 as Metaphor for The Waiting for Godot    4

Metaphor of God as: Corona vaccine    6

" Deus ex machina"    6

Conclusion    7

Works Cited    7

Are we waiting for godot? A metaphor for covid-19

“You’re on earth there's no cure for that"

-Samuel Beckett

Hypothesis

Initially, while reading this quote my sudden ideas are like that we are all alone on the earth to survive and there is no cure and insurance for our life, it may write at  certain extend, but for that do we e be blind for salvation and waiting for something divine super power just like estragon vladimir? 

For me this waiting kind of themes are arises a lot many questions regarding existence of individual, what it would be in this material world? 

As the answer of my question , here we go with some related perspective of existentialism, 

Introduction 

"Waiting for godot" is considered as the absurd play by genre written  by Samuel Beckett, waiting for godot was the well known work , in the theatre of absurd. This metaphor of waiting is used to illustrate the Dystopic nature of our approach towards covid-19. Corona , is the another name of hungry giant created by whom we don't know but it is badly eating life of human race since last for a 

year.  See, as we all know that continued use of a chemical and technical lab( to find a vaccine) , test to inappropriately define a case and the use of that measure to define the health impacts of the paint make is discussed a lot on various platforms and work of art.

In the 1948 Samuel Beckett wrote an age mover  play "waiting for good". which is mainly about  two hopeless people , blindly waiting for or someone which is very unknown and absurd but divine named Godot, who will come and drift them in heaven as perpetual salvation,  but their endless hope for waiting for godot on this  Earth is not fulfill, can we give waiting for godot is  to  waiting for what 

because they are waiting at under the tree and but they have no idea about god or does he will arrive or not does he exist or not.

 When the people are   do not know and had no idea  about was their imagination go right or was god arriving does not arriving so they decide to commit suicide with using the tree lastly they give up the idea of suicide because that don't have any rope with them they say they are living but stay have you get any idea? 

It is a kind of archetypal which represent the idea of theatre of the absurd and it is everything wrong with Existentialism, dystopian scaremongering and along with postmodernism. It believes as Albert camus posited , that we have no purpose other than what purpose we invent to do whether we do. 

But because it is avant -garde , it says the people impressed by the term like that lost of organic food marketing group of alternative medicines hucksters sale products to people waiting for godot magical totems.

Covid-19 as Metaphor for The Waiting for Godot

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has created an existential crisis among people. It has 

applied what Nietzsche once said, 

“to live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning 

in the suffering.”

 Many people are being down and out all over the world. The lockdown 

period has increased the struggle to find genuine meaning for existence.

 Why are we here? 

How can we make a difference? How should we really live?

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is a search for a way of to get relief. The characters are  here 

reflect the meaninglessness of life. The acts of Vladimir and Estragon resemble the 

boredom and monotony of complete lockdown. In act I, 

Estragon says, “nothing happens, nobody 

comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.” Godot is the unknown. Godot never turns up, but 

keeps on procrastinating his visit to the end

The way the term of absurd theatre is characterized bye obscure things aur illusionary hopes awaiting in event that perhaps we'll never occurs and flaking a conclusion in a dramatic sense the same way we are suffering with this pending meaning which also has characterized by the obscure themes and imagery hope of be abolished.  So without defining any specific perils which over all effect on the theatregore is all too close to that felt by one reviewing the evolution of covid-19 and our responses to it. 

one of parallel is that worth pointing out is voluminous, open paradoxical, analytical and critical literature published on the Beckett's work for attempting to explain its meaning and underlying philosophy. Similarly with the covid-19 there is a plethora of published reports of each and every aspect of this disease that allows supporting almost opinion or policy. 

One of the hallmark of Beckett's work is more mature work and with minimalist approach. The same way I read somewhere about it and I I plan to use this approach in presenting a review of where we are with the various aspect of covid-19 and moon importantly how we can no longer afford the await the arrival of godot.

Now good  is in this case might well be the arrival of an effective vaccine but as in the play that might prove to be more in illusion of hope than reality the same way the vaccine is a more in illusion of hope than reality.

That is why waiting for good is the perfect metaphor for coronavirus in disaster medicine and public health preparedness from Cambridge University press, 

" no one is dying in the disease is real or that prevention is, it is the climate of fear being perpetuated based on incomplete information, and hyping each flashpoint that is preventing and honest to look at situation and a real risk analysis"

While reading this quote , one thing is very clear in my mind is that nothing is more deadly unless we don't know the risk, it means fear factors played a vital role in our life. Along with this absence of 

knowledge is also the greater theme in waiting for godot also and with the current situation of coronavirus pandemic also. 

Yes of course we all want a vaccine, As a moral reader I also want that the waiting of go to should be and soon but can be think that the waiting is just about fear of this world, waiting for godot means how one can become peerless just because Yoshi get the powerful divine , the same way vaccine is a powerful thing with that we can also be fearless. 

see how everything is connected our emotions over fear, our belief in savior, our belief in God. Everything related with over way of thinking way of interpreting the things this is what fear makes create the metters in our life.

Metaphor of God as: Corona vaccine

As we know that we are desperately waiting of coronavirus in in today's time just like the astragin and valmidir Veer waiting for godot, so with this perspective we can compare over metaphors of

 coronavirus in with the metaphor of God in the Samuel Beckett's " waiting for godot" , to making idea 

crystal clear I would like to add a one term called

 " Deus ex machina" 

As per the dictionary meaning, Deus ex machina, (Latin: “god from the machine”) a person or thing that appears or is introduced into a situation suddenly and unexpectedly and provides an artificial or contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty. Deus ex machina.

Corona pandemic is harming a lot to human race, death ratio crossed the millions of life,  people are desperately waiting to defeat this disease of corona, but the world continuous get failure to find  any 

medicine or vaccine which can fights and defeat the Corona, just imagine if we get the vaccine then?  Just likeDeus ex machina becomes 

 an unexpected  thing with power or savior in this hopeless situation.

Conclusion

 Wait for something which is meaningless is absurd, hope for something which has no existence it is  deformity of mind . Believing something which will never arrive is just a waste of time, that is all all are are the concept of strong existentialism which over protagonist characters don't have. At the concluding part of this assignment i made a remark on this such crucial topics which I like to represent 

some of ideas regarding this existentialism, waiting, waiting for nothing, God's Idea of salvation, god's idea of punishment ( as many religious people are considered the Corona pandemic as a punishment by 

God) this is how we all are tend to think about and keep a kind of hope in our heart that one day everything will happen good a one day everything will solve and we will meet the perfect your happiness of life. But as per the existentialist view point Teri is nothing like perpetual or eternal, nothing like permanent happiness even there is nothing like God as an authority to provide the salvation and happiness, show the waiting for godot or a God is something like a stupid idea the same way people are weeting for the coronavirus vaccine, See waiting and hoping will never end but one should think in a practical way without believing strongly in any constructed idea, without doing philosophical suicide with that Idea of salvation. Take precautions, be aware, be careful is the only way to be happy no other can do it for you and all. 

Works Cited

Britannica. 20 July 1998. 25 November 2020. <https://www.britannica.com/art/deus-ex-machina>.

James J, James. "Are we “Waiting for Godot”- A Metaphor for Covid-19." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 14.3 (2020): 297-298. PDF. 25 November 2020. <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/are-we-waiting-for-godot-a-metaphor-for-covid19/1B4897852A8FFCC27CF6A04A5F89BA13>.