Waiting for God and The Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock choose to not actively strive to read their goals.

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Jonas Hahn

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1/17/02

Waiting for Godot and The Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock choose to not actively strive to read their goals.

        In Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and The Love Song by J. Afred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot the main characters choose not to achieve their goals. Instead, they waste their time. They wouldn’t know what to do if they reached their goals as they are too scared to think positively or take constructive action.

        Estragon and Vladimir are waiting for Godot and Prufrock is waiting for an opportunity to talk to a girl, both reachable goals. Vladimir and Estragon are both capable of just following the messenger boy that comes along. Vladimir and Estragon are both capable of just following the messenger boy that comes along. He says “What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir” (Beckett 56) showing that he knows where Godot is, yet Vladimir and Estragon decide not to follow the messenger. As readers, we don’t quite know why Vladimir and Estragon choose not to reach their goals. Vladimir and Estragon also have a chance of ending it all by hanging themselves, yet they don’t want to because they would rather wait for Goddot, then actually search for him. This suggests that maybe all humans do is wait without purpose and merely pass time as Vladimir and Estragon do by talking:

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        VLADIMIR: We’ve nothing more to do here.

        ESTRAGON: Nor anywhere else.

        VLADIMIR: Ah Gogo, don’t go on like that. To-morrow everything will be better.

        ESTRAGON: How do you make that out?

        VLADIMIR: Did you not hear what the child said?

        ESTRAGON: No.

        VLADIMIR: He said that Godot was sure to come to-morrow. What do you say to that?

        ESTRAGON: Then all we have to do is wait on here. (Beckett 57)

        Prufrock, like Vladimir and Estragon, choose to wait rather than actively strive to reach his goal. He goes to the party wanting to talk to a women ...

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