Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Waiting for Godot Group 3

In Act 2, we get another sense of repetition in many different scenes.  For example: Estragon, Lucky, and Vladimir all switch hats multiple times which represents the numerous times that things are repeated throughout the whole entire play.  The only reason the hat switching stops is because Vladimir ends it ends it by asking how the hat looks on him. Vladimir: "How does it fit me? Estragon: "How would I know?" Vladimir: "No, but how do I look in it?" (1396).  Everything that anyone says keeps on repeating over and over and it gets annoying to read at parts because you get tired of expecting the same thing to happen multiple times.  We also get a sense that Vladimir has to take care of Estragon because he is his protector, even if he does like being alone he feels responsible because it is how their relationship works.  Again, we read that Vladimir tries to help pull up Pozzo, but they both fall, and then Estragon tries to help pull up Vladimir but then he falls too.  An interesting scene is when Pozzo and Lucky are compared to Cain and Abel, and Estragon says that "hes all humanity" (1403).  I think that because of this biblical indication that all of these characters represent us as humanity, and Godot represents God, because we never see him.  My question to you would be: what do you think the meaning of this play is? Does the use of repetition have a point?

2 comments:

  1. I like your interpretation of Godot. We don't see Godot in the play, but Vlad and Estragon are waiting for him. It has a sense of God in it. But, I can't look that deep into it. They do nothing the whole story, and I think it's a bunch of meaningless meanings that have no meaning...if that makes sense.

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  2. I think the purpose of this play is to evoke a feeling or emotion. The repetative meaningless patterns in the play could mimic the way some people veiw life as meaningless repetition of mondane things that go no where. for example going to work eberyday to make money to eat then to live, but whats the point of living in the first place? you die in the end anyway.

    I think it's to make the reader feel a certain way. Annoyed maybe with the constant meaningless cyclical patterns

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