Monday, October 27, 2014

Homework 10/27


Before Wednesday, choose one scene from the play, any scene that speaks to you -- that you find interesting, confusing, challenging -- write at least 15 questions that your scene raises.  Try to relate your questions to the themes listed below.      

The struggle; Isolation; Adulthood; Self-interest; Meaning / knowing; Suffering; Patience; Oppression; Backstabbing; Deceiving; Confusion; Uncertainty; Nature of men; Friendship / companionship; Poverty; Mental hardship; Redemption / salvation; Language and how it's used / hope birth and death

You do not need to respond to the questions listed below.  You can, however, use them as a guide to help shape your own questions.

Questions:
·         Why is Lucky’s speech in Act I and not in Act II? What comes before and after it?
·         Why do we not see Lucky’s dance?
·         Why is Lucky dumb in Act II and why does he need a hat to think?
·         Why is Pozzo blind in Act II?
·         Why does he need Lucky, why is he a slave master?
·         Why does Godot never show up?
·         Why is the boy a boy and not a girl? And why is the boy the only character without a name?
·         Why does Estragon always forget?
·         Why don’t Vladimir and Estragon choose not to kill themselves at the end of the play?
·         Why don’t Didi and Gogo separate?
·         Why is it Didi that always says, “We are waiting for Godot”? And why does Didi say it the one time he does?

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