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.
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