Waiting for Godot- Book Blog 6 page 52
Upon the departure of Pozzo and Lucky.
Vl: How they have changed!
Es: Who?
Vl: Those two.
Es: That’s the idea, let’s make some conversation.
Vl: Haven’t they?
Es: What?
Vl: Changed.
Es: Very likely. They all change. Only we can’t.
Vl: Likely! It’s certain. Didn’t you see them?
Es: I suppose I did. But I don’t know them.
Vl: Yes you do know them.
Es: No I don’t know them.
Vl: We know them, I tell you. You forget everything. Unless they’re not the same…
Es: Why didn’t they recognize us then?
Vl: That means nothing. I too pretended not to recognize them. And then nobody ever recognizes us.
This quote gives me the fuzzes but I don’t know the reason why. It may be because it is a farewell; they make me tear up regardless of what they are and what they mean.
Vladimir is seemingly amazed by how Pozzo and Lucky had changed. Earlier in the text Vladimir and Estragon were pondering who these strangers were, thinking either of them could be Godot. I really doubt that Vladimir had had any prior relationship with either Pozzo or Lucky.
I think that Vladimir was referring to a lifelong growth that everyone goes though; the growth and death of the mind, the metamorphosis from sperm to old man. The transformation is inevitable and to see it once is to see them all, that is, unless you are Benjamin Button.
Upon the departure of Pozzo and Lucky.
Vl: How they have changed!
Es: Who?
Vl: Those two.
Es: That’s the idea, let’s make some conversation.
Vl: Haven’t they?
Es: What?
Vl: Changed.
Es: Very likely. They all change. Only we can’t.
Vl: Likely! It’s certain. Didn’t you see them?
Es: I suppose I did. But I don’t know them.
Vl: Yes you do know them.
Es: No I don’t know them.
Vl: We know them, I tell you. You forget everything. Unless they’re not the same…
Es: Why didn’t they recognize us then?
Vl: That means nothing. I too pretended not to recognize them. And then nobody ever recognizes us.
This quote gives me the fuzzes but I don’t know the reason why. It may be because it is a farewell; they make me tear up regardless of what they are and what they mean.
Vladimir is seemingly amazed by how Pozzo and Lucky had changed. Earlier in the text Vladimir and Estragon were pondering who these strangers were, thinking either of them could be Godot. I really doubt that Vladimir had had any prior relationship with either Pozzo or Lucky.
I think that Vladimir was referring to a lifelong growth that everyone goes though; the growth and death of the mind, the metamorphosis from sperm to old man. The transformation is inevitable and to see it once is to see them all, that is, unless you are Benjamin Button.
Benjamen Button- Depicted as a young old man
Saying that, perhaps people should be generalized or at least thrown into a large pile. We know each other though this transformation. We should be able to wink at each other nonchalantly because we have all performed this act of transformation. We are all chained together in knowledge of each other.
Very melancholic, Estragon admits that there is a change but that they could not change. I assume that the reason that they are unable to grow is not because they have aged to the point of no growth, but because they are always waiting for Godot. If I were to take Anna's suggestion that Godot symbolizes an idea, the truth to enlightenment, that would mean that Estragon and Vladimir are stagnant minded and no growth is taking place. Only the act of waiting for growth is taking place. Lucky and Pozzo on the other hand pursue their life without having waited for Godot and are able to grow though experience and existence. Beckett perhaps hints at the time he has spent not growing, looking for the truth, waiting for Godot. Perhaps he too is too obsessed with the idea of Godot that he may never grow from all of this waiting. I might even be in the same position as Estragon and Vladimir.
The last line is an interesting line. The drift I got from it was that human communication is so flawed that acquaintances are afraid to greet each other in fear that the other party may not remember them. It could also be refering to the paragraph about the 'common transformation'. Vladimir may be saying that people don't recognize each other as whose who go through the transformation.
Very melancholic, Estragon admits that there is a change but that they could not change. I assume that the reason that they are unable to grow is not because they have aged to the point of no growth, but because they are always waiting for Godot. If I were to take Anna's suggestion that Godot symbolizes an idea, the truth to enlightenment, that would mean that Estragon and Vladimir are stagnant minded and no growth is taking place. Only the act of waiting for growth is taking place. Lucky and Pozzo on the other hand pursue their life without having waited for Godot and are able to grow though experience and existence. Beckett perhaps hints at the time he has spent not growing, looking for the truth, waiting for Godot. Perhaps he too is too obsessed with the idea of Godot that he may never grow from all of this waiting. I might even be in the same position as Estragon and Vladimir.
The last line is an interesting line. The drift I got from it was that human communication is so flawed that acquaintances are afraid to greet each other in fear that the other party may not remember them. It could also be refering to the paragraph about the 'common transformation'. Vladimir may be saying that people don't recognize each other as whose who go through the transformation.
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