Samuel beckett was born in an Irish Jewish family on 1906. Beckett loved drama in middle school. He graduated from Trinity College in Dublin on 1927. Due to his excellent academic performance, he was hired as a teacher of Paris Teachers College and Paris University from the following year to 1930. During this period, he met James Joyce, an English decadent writer living in Paris, and was deeply influenced by him. During World War II, when Paris fell, he joined the underground resistance. After the war, he specialized in literary creation. The war brought disaster to the world and deep trauma to his mind. Beckett started writing when he was a teenager. By the end of the war, he had written many poems and novels. 1948- 1949. His novels include the trilogy molloy, Death of Malone and Nobody. All these novels aim to show that life is a difficult and empty idleness, a narrow and meaningless idleness. These novels exposed his pessimistic attitude towards life and his anti-realistic literary thoughts. This point is more prominent in his later drama creation. His Waiting for Godot, written in 1948, is one of the most accomplished, influential and representative absurd plays. This is a two-act play. In the first act, the protagonists Estragon (Gogo for short) and Vladimir (Didi for short) appear on a village road, and there is only a bare tree in the open field. They claim to be waiting for Godot, but who is Godot? When did they meet? Even they don't know. But they are still waiting. In order to avoid the trouble of waiting, they had nothing to say, so they chatted casually. They talk about confession for a while, honeymoon in the Dead Sea for a while, and the story of the savior and thief in the Gospels for a while. He also said some words: "I feel lonely", "I had a dream" and "I am very happy"-and did many boring actions: Didi took off his hat, looked inside, reached in and touched it, then shook it, blew it and put it on again; Gogo took off his boots, looked inside, reached in and felt ... but Gordo never came, but there were two servants, Zhuo Bo and the lucky one. Zhuo Bo led the lucky dog with a rope and threatened him with a whip. The lucky man took the luggage and did as he said. Didi and gogo waited and waited, and finally a boy came. He is Godot's messenger. He told two poor tramps that Gordo would not come tonight, but he would come tomorrow night. The content of the second act is still that Didi and Gogo are waiting for Godot. At the same time, at the same place, the change of the scene is only four or five leaves growing on the tree. They continue to wait for Godot. In order to pass away boredom and loneliness, they continue to say some boring words and do some ridiculous actions. At this time, Zhuo Bo and the lucky one appeared again, but Zhuo Bo was blind and the lucky one became mute. Finally, the boy came. He told Didi and Gogo that Gordo would not come today, but he would come tomorrow. The play highlights the disillusionment of westerners from different planes and the endless cycle of aimless life. The first act and the second act are in time (both at dusk), place (both empty) and content (both two people appear first, after a long conversation, the master and servant appear, and then the boy appears to take a message). Especially the content, in the end, back to the beginning. We can imagine that if the play has the third and fourth acts, it must be a program that repeats the first two acts. All these show that people's situation is monotonous and rigid, and life is endless suffering. Beckett argued that "only art without plot and action can be regarded as real art". He really reduced the plot and action of Waiting for Godot to a very low limit, and there was no conflict between plot and drama as people usually understand. In the words of Gogo, the character in the play, in the second act, the day before, they "talked empty talk" and "had a nightmare", but today it is a repetition of these empty talk and nightmares. This is the embodiment of Beckett's nihilistic outlook on life, which contains extreme dissatisfaction with reality. What his characters can't stand most is the emptiness and hatred of life: "We are bored to death, which is an undeniable reality." "We have lost our rights." "I've been crawling around in the mud all my life!" "Look at this rubbish. I have never left in my life! " The protagonists Diddy and Gogo are always nagging, proving that they still exist, and they can escape from reality without thinking or listening to others. Their only hope is to wait for Godot, but who is Godot? What does he stand for? There is no explanation in the play, and the audience doesn't know. The play was staged in the United States on 1958. The director asked the author: What does Godot stand for? Beckett's answer is full of wit and absurdity: "If I had known, I would have said it in the play". From the play, Godot only supports the faint hope of the wanderers Didi and Gogo to travel through time, and is a lifeline for their survival: "Godot is coming, we are saved." But he just didn't come. They were so depressed that they wanted to hang themselves. But will they die? No, because they have to wait for Godot. In Beckett's view, life is like this, life is not easy to die, there is hope and despair. But in the final analysis, it is despair. Nevertheless, "we must wait for Godot, and we will continue to wait." [San Quentin News] The audience knows that bitter waiting will inevitably bring disillusionment. What a tragic picture of life.