Pozzo and Lucky arrive They talk They leave A boy comes He says Godot will not come today but tomorrow Act Two The same thing happens again The same talk The same message Vladimir says We re waiting for Godot Days repeat Nothing changes Slow and Empty Time The men wait all day Time passes very slowly They have nothing important to do They joke They fight They make peace Estragon tries to take off his boots Vladimir plays with his hat They talk about the Bible They think of hanging themselves from the tree Estragon says Nothing to be done This shows the boredom of slow time No Real Change in Time Between Act One and Act Two one night passes In the morning the tree has a few leaves This is the only change But everything else is the same The men are still waiting Pozzo and Lucky come again This time Pozzo is blind Lucky is dumb These changes do not change the main situation The waiting continues without end Fixed Place The whole play takes place in one spot It is a lonely road There is one bare tree The road goes nowhere There are no houses No signs No people passing Just emptiness All the talking meeting and waiting happen in this same place They never move to a new location The fixed place makes the feeling of being trapped stronger The Place as a Symbol The road and the tree are symbols The road is like life But here it leads nowhere The tree may mean hope or death They talk about hanging themselves from it In Act Two the leaves may show a little hope But still Godot does not come The empty land around them shows the emptiness inside them The place matches their hopeless wait So Beckett writes at the end Vladimir Well Shall we go Estragon Yes let s go They do not move They do not move from the place Their endless wait continues in the same place for Godot This symbolizes humans waiting for a better tomorrow until death Time and place in Waiting for Godot are strange and unreal Time has no start Time has no end All days feel the same The place never changes It is always an empty road and a bare tree These things make the waiting feel endless Beckett uses unclear time and a fixed place to show the nothingness of life This makes the audience feel the same hopelessness as Vladimir and Estragon