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What is the significance of Lucky's song in the drama Waiting for Godot written by Samuel Beckett?
I think Lucky's song is shows the condition of whole humanity the people who are lazy and good for nothing they do nothing but wait.
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Lucky's speech is perhaps the most significant section in Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
1. It is a performance of thinking. Thought qua thought is its subject.
2. Its self-reflexivity is an important point.
3. It is a parody of the pedagogic process. Lucky's clown show is a mockery of the thinking man with his hat.
4. The speech shows the Cartesian torture of the thinking process.
5. It is an instance interior monologue; more of a 'stream of language' than a 'stream of consciousness'.
6. The unpunctuated nature of the speech suggests its Unconscious autonomy. It is hardly mediated by the rationalizing process that converts nonsense into sense.
7. It is an exploration of discourse eclipsing the subject.
8. The speech-torrent like this elsewhere too in Beckett (Not I) has suggestions of thought in the anus...thought as waste and the ensuing plea for a blank mind.
9. The speech is an exercize in schizophrenic self-disintegration.
10. Thematically, it is about a frustrated search of God...God private in public. It is about God's absence or death.
11. It is also about arbitrary causality (reasons unknown) and the absence of divine justice.
12. The speech is also about pedagogic failure. It turns all knowledge into scrap.
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