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Waiting for Godot
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English Mind Map on Waiting for Godot, created by Georgia Taylor on 31/05/2014.
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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
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