Waiting for Godot Lesson Plan

Throughout the play, Vladimir and Estragon frequently discuss how they would be better off alone, only to decide to stay together. What keeps them together? Would it even be possible for these characters to separate?

It would seem that what binds Vladimir and Estragon together is a combination of loneliness, habit, and predestination. They seem to come back to the same spot each day, as if programmed to do so. Through their combination of love and revulsion, Beckett represents a particular view of human relationships that was typical among other existentialist writers like Jean-Paul Sartre: a kind of "can't live with you, can't live without you" mentality. Even though...