In postmodernism, the past is revisited with irony rather than being wholly discarded, as seen in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, where the title itself is a pun on "God." The two tramps symbolize a nostalgia for a lost sense of wholeness, waiting for a Godot that never arrives, reflecting a futile longing for faith. Lucky's incoherent speech exemplifies this struggle, parodying the past's certainty in language and religious belief, ultimately illustrating the derangement and ambiguity that characterize the postmodern condition.