Distortion in Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettDistortion presents exaggerated and absurd portraits of the human condition. Distortion also gives an author a plane of existence that allows them to ask questions about the nature of thought, behavior, and existence. Samuel Beckett distorts reality in his play Waiting For Godot; this literary effect allows him to question human life and a possible afterlife. On the surface, the recurring scenario is absurd: Vladimir and Estragon remain in the same unspecified location and wait for Godot, who never shows up, day after day. They participate in this activity, in this waiting, both during Act I and Act II, and we are led to deduce that if Samuel Beckett had composed an Act III, Vladimir and Estragon would still be waiting on the road country house next to the tree. Of course, no human would do such things. The actions of the characters in relation to the setting are unreal, distorted, absurd. But it is through this distortion and only through this distortion that we can guess the importance and details of the evasive figure....