Waiting for Godot is considered the masterpiece of existentialism, in which Samuel Beckett explores the futility of man's hope. In Waiting for Godot, two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The results are both funny and dangerous in this existential masterpiece.