• Home (Essays upon S. Beckett's theatre)
• Beckett's theatre : the character as a philosopheme
• Did Samuel Beckett find the inspiration of Happy days in Un Carnet de bal by Julien Duvivier ?
• How and why Samuel Beckett deceived the critics of Waiting for Godot
• Samuel Beckett stripped bare by his authors, even
• Samuel Beckett's Endgame : against Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind
• The end of Art and the Advent of a money-governed world in Waiting for Godot 
• "Life : a game that always gets lost." For Endgame, Samuel Beckett got the idea from the French critic Sainte-Beuve. 
• Endgame: Beckett and Aristotle
• Evil in Beckett's theatre
• Master and disciple in Beckett's theatre
• Waiting for Godot: Beckett and Proust
• Wainting for Godot and The Temptation of Saint Antony (Flaubert)
• Beckett's Miscellanies

Gérard Piacentini
The end of Art and the Advent of a money-governed world in Waiting for Godot 

In the Beckett's play, Monsieur Albert and his friend, symbols of French Society, have been chased from Reality by Godot, who is a personification of Money, during the first part of the 19th Century. All that is left of them is Vladimir and Estragon, incarnations of Poetry and Philosophy, the cultural part of man in Society. They live by the Tree, away from everyday life, withdrawn into the Imaginary. But now, Money is becoming the only aim in Society. So Godot, who rules Reality, will overcome the Imaginary. Then, there will be no room left for Art and Poetry. Vladimir and Estragon will vanish into Nothingness.