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16/07/202321/10/2024

Pozzo and Lucky, Control and Chaos: Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’

There are many unsolved questions surrounding Samuel Beckett’s enigmatic, nebulous masterpiece of a play, Waiting for Godot. But rather than attempt to outline the figure of the mysterious main character, or speak to the significance of the two trampy protagonists, today I would like to turn my attention towards a perhaps even more ambiguous duo; a bullish, tyrannical master, and a slave who is mute but articulate, meek yet explosive, and dignified yet savage.

17/10/202220/07/2023

‘Who art thou that disputest with God’: The Satanic Pursuit of Purpose in ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’

If there was an era in which it could be argued that the mind of the modern man was born, it would be the Enlightenment period. As Pagden writes, the era ‘[stood] for the claim that all individuals have the right to shape their own end for themselves rather than let others do it for them’,[1] and as philosophers like Voltaire denounced monoliths like Christianity as a ‘long-standing infection’ whose […]