Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Waiting for Godot
- RELATIONSHIPS
- V&E
- Dependency
- Characters interchangable
e.g. epanalepsis, repetition
- Competitive double act
e.g. stichomythia
- 'Didi' and 'Gogo'
affectionate,
clown like names
- Everyman
- Conflict to prolong time
- P&L
- Master-Slave
- Reliant on each other,
more so seen in Act II
- Pozzo indulges in bodily pleasures (eating, smoking)
Lucky expresses intellectual and aesthetic persuits
- Lucky comfortable with
existance, no expectations,
structured, repetitive, no waiting
- THEMES
- Circularity
- Choices
- Absurdity
- Suffering
- Time
- Existence
- trivial?
- Friendship
- Uncertainty
- Religion
- SPEECHES
- Act II
- Vladimir's Speech
- Allegory- symbolic narrative
- Questioning, cartesian,
breaching fourth wall
- Stronger sense of time & memory?
- Pozzo's Speech
- Paradox
between
allegory that
life is too
short but
days are too
long
- Past to present
tense, present=
current predicament
- Act I- Lucky's Speech
- Flouts every maxim
- 1. Callous God 2. Man wastes 3. Inhospitable Earth
4. Man diminishes in inhospitable world
- Release of
repression