[...ESTRAGON wakes with a start. Jumps up, casts about wildly. VLADIMIR runs to him, puts his arms around him.] VLADIMIR: There...there... Didi is there... don't be afraid...
Why does this play appear to have substantially more inter-character tenderness?
How mutually beneficial is the relationship between Pozzo and Lucky?
How do audiences respond to productions of Godot that err on the side of indefinite setting and non-politicization?
How does/does one “read” a production in which Godot is predetermined differently from one in which he/she/it is not?
Who is “Mr. Albert”? (85)
What role does the BOY play in the [determination of the] physics of this world? Is he in a position of dominion? Does the boy age? Why doesn't Godot dye his beard?
Why will he never let him sleep?
What has Pozzo got to prove?
Didi...Afraid...Dreams...Why...?...
VlADIMIR: Suppose we got up to begin with.
ESTRAGON: No harm in trying.
[They get up]
ESTRAGON: Child's play.
VLADIMIR: Simple question of will-power. (78)
Why do these passages jump out at me so?
VLADIMIR: ...it's the way pf doing it that counts, the way of doing it, if you want to go on living. (55)
ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?
VLADIMIR: Yes yes, we're magicians. But let us persevere in what we have resolved, before we forget. (64)
VLADIMIR: You must be happy too, deep down, if only you knew it.
ESTRAGON: Happy about what?
VLADIMIR: To be back with me again.
ESTRAGON: Would you say so?
VLADIMIR: Say you are, even if it's not true.
ESTRAGON: What am I to say?
VLADIMIR: Say, I am happy.
ESTRAGON: I am happy.
VLADIMIR: So am I.
ESTRAGON: So am I.
VLADIMIR: We are happy.
ESTRAGON: We are happy. [Silence] What do we do know, now that we are happy?
VLADIMIR: Wait for Godot. (56)
-And particularly this'n:
POZZO: [Suddenly furious] Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day like any other day, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? [Calmer] They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams for an instant, then it's night once more. [He jerks the rope.] On!
Cheers,
-Jo
Nice question about the Boy. I forget about him all the time. Makes me think of my own decay of the body questions. Could he be a counterpoint to the aging/decaying Didi/Gogo/Pozzo/Lucky? Is Godot somehow more powerful because he "doesn't dye his beard?" Is this connected to aging--decaying--dying?
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