Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot

1. 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

2. THEMES

   • Circularity
   • Choices
   • Absurdity
   • Suffering
   • Time
   • Existence
     • trivial?
   • Friendship
   • Uncertainty
   • Religion

3. 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