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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Waiting for Godot Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The absence of Godot seems to serve the play on separate, yet converging...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The absence of Godot seems to serve the play on separate, yet converging levels.  On one hand, Vladimir and Estragon should not see Godot.  It makes sense for they discuss at length about him, explain their desire to see him, and their presence in the play is about Godot's presence.  Not seeing him helps us understand much in the way of futility and human endeavor, as Vladimir and Estragon strive for something which is not to be realized. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:19:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Godot's absence and ever-anticipated appearance advances Beckett's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Godot's absence and ever-anticipated appearance advances Beckett's Existentialist philosophy.  Essentially, for an Existentialist, life is absurd and meaningless; so in this short play, Vladimir and Estragon wait because they do not know what else to do, and it really does not matter if they do have plans, because there will be no meaning to those plans either.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:12:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This depends on how you read Samuel Beckett's existential play.  Some...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This depends on how you read Samuel Beckett's existential play.  Some interpret Godot to be a representation of God.  If this is the case, it is important that Godot never appears in order to convey Vladimir and Estragon's blind faith in him.  They continue to wait for him, even though they don't know where he is or what he wants.  The boys who come in and out of the play are the "messengers" for Godot, but never bring any real news from...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:11:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is it important for Godot never to appear ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why is it important for Godot never to appear ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:09:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[it's a ref to "simon lee..." by wordsworth
just didn't know if it had a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[it's a ref to "simon lee..." by wordsworth
just didn't know if it had a term]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:27:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The rhyme scheme of ababcded, points to it being a form of literary...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The rhyme scheme of ababcded, points to it being a form of literary ballad with eight line stanzas. The rhyme scheme and rhythm differ from each stanza. This is done to achieve a particular effect and is usually done for a particular reason on the part of the author. Usually the rhyme scheme and rhythm form a regular in pattern but this is not always the case. Again, it depends on the author and their intent when writing the ballad.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:42:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In ballad form, is there a name for the rhyming scheme ababcded?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In ballad form, is there a name for the rhyming scheme ababcded?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:57:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[thankyou for your comments... :-)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[thankyou for your comments... :-)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:13:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The previous post is quite lucid.  I would like to add a thematic note...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The previous post is quite lucid.  I would like to add a thematic note to the topic.  I think that the essence of both works is the idea that the notion of an external structure of order and justice might be lacking in the modern setting.  Part of Lear's own downfall is the sense of what he believes in terms of right and wrong should be mirrored in the universe.  Lear pays dearly for this mistake, namely that there is only human action in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:12:24 PST</pubDate>
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There’s a good article by Normand Berlin on this at...]]></title>
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There’s a good article by Normand Berlin on this at http://www.samuel-beckett.net/BerlinTraffic.html:
Berlin states (1999) that in King Lear “Shakespeare gives us an old man, powerless, lonely, an outcast in a bare landscape, filled with anguish and questions, journeying toward death. He gives us another old man, Gloucester, blind, dependent, suicidal. He gives us a young man, Edgar, disguised as a Tom o' Bedlam, naked, exposed, searching...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:56:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are there any similarities between Waiting for Godot and King Lear?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are there any similarities between Waiting for Godot and King Lear?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:25:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Lucky-Pozzo episode in both the acts of Waiting for Godot sets forth...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/waiting-for-godot/q-and-a/what-symbolic-significance-pozzo-lucky-episode-116685</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Lucky-Pozzo episode in both the acts of Waiting for Godot sets forth the difference and repetition structure that holds sway over the entire play.
1. According to Bert O. States, it represents the tragic plot of this 'tragi-comdey' with the comedy being the two-tramps plot.
2. It is a kind of a happening; a chance-encounter with the Other.
3. It introduces the theme of power into the play in a fore-frontal way. It is a kind of a master...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:22:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the symbolic significance of the Pozzo-Lucky episode in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/waiting-for-godot/q-and-a/what-symbolic-significance-pozzo-lucky-episode-116685</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the symbolic significance of the Pozzo-Lucky episode in Beckett's play 'Waiting for Godot'?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:06:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The theme of oppression and cruelty in Waiting for Godot has all sorts...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/waiting-for-godot/q-and-a/theme-oppression-cruelty-waiting-for-godot-73047</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The theme of oppression and cruelty in Waiting for Godot has all sorts of metaphoric dimensions--Existentialist, theological, comic and even socio-political. As Hamm summed it up at the beginning of Endgame, we all think ourselves to be the greatest of sufferers and it is this self-assumption of a tragic status that turns it all into comic. Human existence, as the absurdist critic of the play would say, is full of oppression and cruelty and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:10:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To read Beckett's Godot as God and Kafka's Dog as God, I think, is an...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/waiting-for-godot/q-and-a/godots-character-often-thought-refer-god-how-why-110511</link>
        <description><![CDATA[To read Beckett's Godot as God and Kafka's Dog as God, I think, is an exercise in symbolist heresy. Most of the 20th century literture, especially the literature of its second half, militates against the symbolic and redefines the symbol as surface, as a literal object-state, a movement which sees its culmination in the postmodernist idea of the symbol as simulation. One must remember the addenda in Beckett's Watt--"No symbols where none...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:57:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The idea of wating for someone or something to provide answers or...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/waiting-for-godot/q-and-a/godots-character-often-thought-refer-god-how-why-110511</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The idea of wating for someone or something to provide answers or meaning is a vibrant element in Beckett's work.  For his own part, Beckett himself vehemently denied that Godot represents God.  Yet, the notion of waiting or not taking action in the hopes of something else to arrive and alleviate the pain of choice is present in the work.  If we see Godot as a "God"- like character, or if we see him as symbolic of another force of totality...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:33:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Godot's character is often thought to refer to God, how and why does it...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Godot's character is often thought to refer to God, how and why does it cause a change in the play's title and subject to Waiting for Godot?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:36:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Lesson is a play that has been categorized as being a part of the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/waiting-for-godot/q-and-a/what-theme-lesson-by-eugene-ionesco-74715</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Lesson is a play that has been categorized as being a part of the 'theatre of the absurd', projecting a world where meaning has become both dead and deadly by means of infinite proliferation. The play is definitely tandem with this kind of a general straitjacketing, but specifically speaking, it is a play about teaching, the process of pedagogy, the student-teacher relationship and its innate power structure and a radical subversion of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:27:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thematically speaking, Godot has it all---from the ordinary to the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/waiting-for-godot/q-and-a/what-themes-waiting-for-godot-please-help-me-ok-73953</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Thematically speaking, Godot has it all---from the ordinary to the sublime, from the suffering of putting on a misfit boot to the suffering caused by a divine absence. From a religious point of view, the play is about a quest for the transcendental order, frustrated by a radical lack of its presence, whereby the salvation-damnation (the TWO THIEVES section--allusion to Augustine) and sin-redemption binaries become very important. The idea of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:10:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is one of those lines that are repeated throughout the play. Beckett...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is one of those lines that are repeated throughout the play. Beckett builds his drama on a subtly repetitive structure of intra-textual referentiality. 'Nothing to be done', is not only the opening line of the play as spoken by Vladimir but it recurs through the play and is repeated by Estragon later. It is used to strengthen the bond between Didi and Gogo, the 'pseudocouple' on the level of speech-event and indicates their unitary...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:35:27 PST</pubDate>
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