According to Martin Esslin ''The Theater of the Absurd strives to express its feeling of the absurdity of the human condition and the inadequacy of the approach rational through the open abandonment of rational devices. and discursive thought.''.The Theater of the Absurd is a term created after the Second World War by Martin Esslin when he brought together in a book the plays of several playwrights of the time, including Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, among others. These plays and the works developed by these playwrights had as their main theme the belief that life had no meaning or purpose and that human beings were incapable of communicating as they should be. Loneliness and desolation was therefore a recurring theme, since the world had just come out of a war and was completely destroyed and modern man was trying to find hope in the world and understand what the purpose of life was. This feeling of loss and lack of meaning leads to recognition of the absurd nature of the human condition. This theatrical genre allows human beings to see how absurd the world in general is, how absurd they themselves are and sometimes make no sense. The Theater of the Absurd is characterized by repetitive and meaningless dialogues; by the alternation between comic and tragic elements; and by play on words. As mentioned previously, Samuel Beckett's plays are part of the Theater of the Absurd, and we could even say that Waiting for Godot is one of its landmarks, being considered a masterpiece. In his plays, Beckett speaks of the absurdity of the human condition, of the great difficulties of modern man, who lived in a...... middle of paper ...... the death of Christ, the crucifixion , since after everything that had happened in the world, it was impossible for there to still be a God. Vladimir and Estragon do not live, they simply exist. Society was so destroyed that they found themselves stuck in time, lost in the universe, and lost the meaning of their own lives. They exist in a society that is trying to rebuild itself and trying to find hope again. In the second act, Vladimir looks around and notices that things are different, that the tree is now completely covered in leaves, which symbolizes life, regeneration, hope. The leaves that cover the tree are a sign of hope, of hope that everything will get better. Like the leaves of the tree, Godot also symbolizes hope. Vladimir and Estragon place all their hopes for a better future, a better life, in Godot..