Between The World and Me and Waiting For Godot: How Escaping Absurdities Obstructs Authenticity
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me focuses on racism, while Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, the experience of two men waiting to be saved, yet both texts convey the absurdity of the human condition and mankind’s impulse to find meaning in life. Despite the different illustrations of the difficulty of life, both authors indicate that relationships with love are the most valuable thing humankind can achieve. Coates and Beckett demonstrate how religion and worship are forms of self-deception which people use to escape life’s absurdities, when in reality love should be used in order to embrace them, thus allowing an authentic life.
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