Samuel Beckett may have eschewed the use of Christian motifs in Waiting for Godot, but looking at the character Lucky proves otherwise. We can see Lucky as a representative figure of Christ because his actions in the play convey a sort of critique of Christianity. Its role suggests that the benefits of Christianity have diminished to the point that they no longer help humanity at all. If you analyze the poem Waiting for Godot, you can see the huge parallels between the character of Lucky and that of Jesus. Lucky, tied with rope, is the disgraced prisoner, very similar to the story of Jesus as a prisoner of the Romans after Judas denounced him. Pozzo beats, screams and spits on Lucky the same way the Romans treated Jesus when they were preparing him for crucifixion. Lucky carries the burden of Pozzo's bags like Jesus carried his cross, and he is led to a public event where he will be mocked and scorned in the same way the Romans paraded Jesus up the hill to public scorn. Just as Jesus fell three times under the weight of the burden of his cross, Lucky...