Language, action and time in waiting for GodotTwenty-two hundred years before the emergence of the Theater of the Absurd, the Greek philosopher Artistotles came across one of the themes developed in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot; that is, that Thought (Dianoia) is expressed through Diction and that Thought (Theoria) is in itself a form of Action (Energeia). Intellectual action is therefore measured equally against physical action. Over the centuries, theories relating to thought, action and language have evolved considerably, but some underlying themes in Beckett's unconventional work can trace their origins to Aristotle's original concepts regarding drama , that is, the relationships between language, thought, and action involved in contemplation.Aristotle proposes that thought and diction imitate action. In Beckett's Waiting for Godot, it is possible to see a similar scheme (which taken a step further is no longer linear but circular), in which Language allows the existence of Thought which in turn becomes vicarious Action. (Ironically, the entire process depicted by Beckett on stage is equivalent to theatrical art itself which, manifested through language, allows offstage audiences, whose testimony of a play supersedes imagination, to undergo the same process acting indirectly through the characters.) The first and most interesting part of the process is best illustrated by the end of both acts when Vladimir, and then Estragon, says "Yes, let's go" and the stage directions indicate "They do not move". It is enough to simply say and then think about leaving, because there is no more meaning in the vicarious action than in its actual physical manifestation.... middle of the paper... Vladimir commenting on the condition of Estragon's feet: "There is a man all over you, blaming his boots for the faults of his feet." The boots represent God, because each is an external object that man devises to protect himself. Beckett is saying that man should not blame the devices he creates when they fail to protect him from himself, but should rather accept responsibility for their failure since he is the creator of those devices. If God does not fill man's existential void, instead of desperately waiting for that unreliable god to come and save him, he should consider looking to himself to solve the problem of the meaninglessness of his life. Bibliography Aristotle. Poetics. Tr. S. H. Butler. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. New York: Grove Press, 1954Durozoi, Gérald. Beckett. Paris: Bordas, 1972