Waiting for Godot his surveillant presence. He is by turns dismissed, satirised, or ignored, but he, and his tortured son, are never definitively discarded." "Waiting for Godot" has been described as a "metaphor for the long walk into Roussillon, when Beckett and Suzanne slept in haystacks [...] during the day and walked by night [... or] of the relationship of Beckett to Joyce." Becket told Ruby Cohn that Caspar David Friedrich's painting "Two Men Contemplating the Moon", which he saw on his journey to Germany in 1936, was a source for the play. Though the sexuality of Vladimir and Estragon is not always
Frances Beckett Frances Beckett Frances Beckett (1880-1951), Irish artist, was the paternal aunt of Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett. Her father was William Beckett and her brother William, one of four brothers, was Samuel Beckett's father. Beckett studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and in Paris at Colarossi's studio, where she went with Estella Solomons and Beatrice and Dorothy Elvery. In 1903 she exhibited with the Young Irish Artists group with the same group of friends. She exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy between 1897-1908. A portrait by her of Solomons, which had once belonged to Kathleen Goodfellow, is in