I remember being required to take a slightly higher level English course in college, about 1973.
I had to write a paper about the play “Waiting for Godot”.
The play, imho, is nihilistic garbage. I decided to write a paper claiming it was a take-off of the biblical story of Jesus, just to see how I would get graded. As I recall, I got an A.
This was over 50 years ago. My memory never was great, but that is how I remember it.