Lucky Ali

Originally performed in 1953 in French, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot took the stage at the Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto. The play tells the story of Vladimir and Estragon, two men who wait for Godot, someone or something they have not met to seen. The Soulpepper Production illustrates the journey that plays with Vladimir and Estragon’s mind and emotion, in regard to the interactions with their surroundings and themselves. The main focus of the production directs the audience’s attention towards

Originally performed in 1953, in French, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot took the stage at the Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto. The play tells the story of Vladimir and Estragon, two men who wait for Godot, someone or something they had not met to saw. The Soulpepper production illustrates the journey that played with Vladimir and Estragon’s mind and emotions, in regard to the interactions with their surroundings and themselves. The main focus of the production directs the audience’s attention towards

WESTERN CULTURE: “WAITING FOR GODOT” Civilizations will talk to themselves. Art is the favored medium of discourse. Literature mirrors that internal conversation directly. For example, take Victorian England. Dickens’ A Christmas Carol reflected social guilt over the treatment of the poor. H. G. Wells the War of the Worlds reflected insecurity over an industrial-age world war. That war became a reality in less than two decades. So it’s wise to listen to a culture’s authors, especially to those

As a result of both World Wars, many who had been disillusioned by romanticized ideas of war were shocked by the abrupt pain and loss they experienced. Due to the excruciating catastrophe of War, people lost faith in religion and humanity and ultimately felt as though life lacked a meaningful purpose. This pessimistic view of life brought upon the emergence of existentialism as a prominent philosophical belief in society. Many Existentialists believed that our lives are ultimately meaningless and

Beckett’s Time Dilemma: Yesterday as Melancholy and Flux of Time The interrelations between time/existence and past/present are focal issues that Samuel Beckett stresses. Oxford English Dictionary defines time as “the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole”. Considering the continuity and wholeness of the unique elements of time as expressed in this dictionary definition, Beckett’s perception of the time as a whole and

stage directions is Lucky, who he speaks only in Act I when he is forced by Pozzo to think; in Act II he is completely mute. Next, I will focus on the kinesic directions. These ones are non-verbal actions of the characters that the author writes for the readers, who are not seeing the play. Again, these directions are very important in Waiting for Godot; as I have pointed out above, action is very scarce and the characters are the “kings” of the stage. For example, when Lucky is crying, and Pozzo

Dependency is one of the few notions that substantiate another’s existence. Lucky “breaks” without his rope, baggage, or hat to guide him as a testimony to prove his worth and purpose in his life. Pozzo needs an audience to prove his existence through his recitals as he seeks validation for his performance by asking Vladimir and Estragon if his performance was “Good? Fair? Middling? Poor? Positively bad?”, as well as ironically being dependent on Lucky’s services (Beckett 1.39). These characters

Estragon (Gogo) and Vladimir (Didi) are waiting for a man named Godot whom they don’t know. Meanwhile they pass their time by playing games, telling each other stories. In their waiting they meet Pozzo and Lucky. Lucky is Pozzo’s slave and they amuse Vladimir and Estragon for some time. After they went, a small boy comes to inform them about Mr. Godot’s unavailability. They ask him about Mr. Godot. Godot couldn’t come that day so they have to wait another day

While I sit amongst the ranks of a stringed beast, my orchestra, I appreciate the small failures made by myself and my fellow musicians as we fly through the twists and turns of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.2, The Little Russian. A missed accidental in measure thirty-one or an unfavorable bowing in need of correction ten measures after G help the ensemble to advance as a whole. My great gratitude for failure did not carry on outside the ranks of a symphony. Failure was the devil in music, a tritone

In the book If You’re Lucky, written by Yvonne Prinz, The main character, Georgia, loses her brother to a surfing accident while he was away in Australia. But the accident had not made any sense to Georgia because she knew that Lucky knew better than to go out into bad water. Lucky’s girlfriend and one of his friends come back to Georgia and her family. But Fin, Lucky’s friend, seems to know something more about what happened when he starts to take over things that Lucky used to do, such as working