Salvation therefor is determined by chance. .

             One can see the arbitrary of chance in the two boys. One of them gets beaten by Godot and the other one does not "He beats my brother, Sir" (Beckett, 55). There seems to be no reason for Godot to beat one of the boys but not the other. This symbolizes the chances of being saved or damned. If one of the boys gets beaten by Godot while the other has it good, chances of being saved would be fifty percent. .

             According to Beckett, time is based on chance. There seems to be no ordered pattern in "Waiting for Godot". Vladimir and Estragon"s world is one of chaos and no real order. The tree, which is the only setting, is barren on one day and full of leaves the next. Every day Vladimir and Estragon return to the same place to wait for Godot, who never appears. "And if he doesn"t come?" "We"ll come back to-morrow." "And the day after to-morrow." "Until he comes." (Beckett, 9). No one seems to remember what happened the day before "What did we do yesterday?" (Beckett, 9). Neither Vladimir nor Estragon seems to be sure of what happened in the past. They only make assumptions such as "In my opinion we were here" (Beckett, 9). .

             The setting of the play therefor represents that time is based on chance, and as a result human life is based on chance, which determines existence. Therefor time is meaningless. Hence past, present, and future mean nothing and it does not matter for how long Estragon and Vladimir have been waiting for Godot or how much longer they will continue waiting. .

             Because time is based on chance and is thus meaningless, life is arbitrarily and meaningless as well. Pozzo and Lucky are a perfect example of this. On the first day Pozzo is healthy and complaining about his slave Lucky, who is getting old and not as strong and entertaining as he used to be. As Pozzo said "He used to dance the farandole, the fling, the brawl, the jig, the fandango and even the hornpipe.