Waiting for Godot - Character Points
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- Waiting for Godot - Characters
- Vladimir
- Rational and Intellectual
- Tried to philosophise about their situation
- Biblical allusions: V: one of the thieves was saved
- Tried to philosophise about their situation
- Dependent on E
- Seems reluctant to admit how much he needs and cares about E
- V: I missed you... and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a queer thing?
- Seems reluctant to admit how much he needs and cares about E
- Has a better memory and understanding of time than the others
- He realises Act II is like Act I
- V: Off we go again
- He realises Act II is like Act I
- Rational and Intellectual
- Estragon
- Helpless and dependent on V
- Needs advice with his boots, reliant on him for food, emotionally dependent on him
- E: [feebly] Help me!
- Needs advice with his boots, reliant on him for food, emotionally dependent on him
- He has poor memory and no understanding of time
- Can't answer V's questions about where he was, and has no recollection of being in the same place the day before
- V: Is it possible that you've forgotten already? E: That's the way I am
- Can't answer V's questions about where he was, and has no recollection of being in the same place the day before
- Seems to be stupid, but has moments of insight and intelligence
- Works out who has to hang themselves first
- E: Gogo light - bough not break - Gogo dead. Didi heavy - bough break - Didi alone
- Works out who has to hang themselves first
- Helpless and dependent on V
- Pozzo
- A criticism of a capitalist master
- Cruel and selfish
- Exercises power over Lucky - but ironically is relatively powerless
- Act II - he is blind and helpless, literally
- P: Help!
- [Pozzo writhes, groans, beats the ground with his fists]
- Act II - he is blind and helpless, literally
- Represents the gradual decline of humanity and society
- He keeps losing both physical items, and aspects of his personality
- P: I woke up one fine day as blind as Fortune
- P: What have I done with my watch?
- He keeps losing both physical items, and aspects of his personality
- A criticism of a capitalist master
- Lucky
- Lucky's physical suffering compares to mental suffering of the others
- He is beaten and abused by Pozzo
- V: You'll kill him
- P: [he kicks L]
- He is beaten and abused by Pozzo
- Represents the risks for humanity - downfall
- We are told of his past, but his current self isn't recognisable
- P: That was nearly sixty years ago...
- P: Guess who taught me all these beautiful things... My Lucky!
- We are told of his past, but his current self isn't recognisable
- Lucky's tirade represents the chaos of the world & the oppression of ideas
- The modern world is chaotic and nonsensical
- He isn't allowed to keep talking - they dive on him
- P: His hat! [V seizes L's hat. silence of L.]
- P: Give me that! [He snatches the hat from V, throws it on the ground, tramples on it.] There's an end to his thinking!
- Lucky's physical suffering compares to mental suffering of the others
- Boy
- represents hope for V & E
- He keeps telling them that Godot will come
- V: He won't come this evening B: No, sir V: But he'll come tomorrow B: Without fail
- He keeps telling them that Godot will come
- Emblematic of the confusion of the other characters,
- Unclear if he is the same boy both days
- V: I've seen you before, haven't I? B: I don't know, sir?
- Unclear if he is the same boy both days
- Two brothers reflect the cruelty of the world
- One beaten, the other not
- V: He doesn't beat you? B: No, sir, not me. V: Whom does he beat? B: He beats my brother, sir
- One beaten, the other not
- represents hope for V & E
- Godot
- We are never sure if Godot is real
- They have never even seen him
- V: Has he a beard, Mr Godot? B: "Yes, sir"
- They have never even seen him
- Godot has power over V & E
- He keeps them in one place waiting for him
- V: yes, let's go. [they do not move]
- He keeps them in one place waiting for him
- Godot is presented as a saviour
- His name resembles 'God'
- We are never sure if Godot is real
- Vladimir
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