Wednesday, October 11, 2006
on beckettreading waiting for godot for english now. you can either think its crap or its really brilliant. i think it's a bit of both but mostly it's brilliance. i love beckett's ideas. for example, he once said...
love is a reciprocal torture
people get together and create bonds that they're always chafing against. as seen through the characters pozzo and his slave lucky. which i think is quite true, most of the time, it's hard for relationships to be truly equal, and there's often always some form of mutual interdependence.
and how, to be is to be perceived. failing which we can't really exist, and maybe that's why the main characters vladimir & estragon cling to each other like they do, because of their need to be perceived.
almost everything in the play reflects the dynamics of typical human relationships. there's the predominant metaphor of waiting, the idea of free will or predetermined fate, the theory of existentialism, about the philosophy of relationships...and everything that upsets our expectations.
rachel at 7:29 AM