Waiting for Godot is also about the emptiness of the modern world that does not know that it is empty. Do you agree with the statement? Discuss.

I can see how this statement applies. Although Beckett
himself famously stated of his work, "no symbols where none intended," it is almost
impossible not to see symbolism in what he has written. Like "Endgame" the play revolves
around two main characters who ate somehow isolated, stuck in a repetitive pattern,
unable to make a move to do anything differently. Vladimir and Estragon are waiting,
ostensibly for "Godot" - but who they are waiting for is not as important as the fact
that they are waiting foe someone (or something) that they have never seen before but
that they anticipate will arrive. They will not act until that moment occurs, so they
are doomed to repeat the same process over and over
again.

Where I see a clear parallel here to the modern
world is that we, as a society, often repeat the same actions without giving any though
to what they mean. We do what we are "supposed" to do according to our society, but as
was a major theme of the modernist period in literature, we do not know for certain why
we do those things. The world has lost its sense of meaning just as it has lost its
humanity. We are obsessed with the idea of "progress" yet we do not know what that
really means. At the same time, we suffer from an inability to act. We wait =until we
are told what to do, we never step outside of the accepted and expected norms. We
stagnate and we lack an internal driving force to break free from that stagnation - in
this sense, the world is empty, disillusioned, and devoid of
purpose.