Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1. What are the names of the two main characters in the play?
Answer: Vladimir and Estragon. They are two vagabonds who are waiting for Godo.
2. What are the nicknames of Vladimir and Estragon?
Answer: Vladimir is called Didi and Estragon is called Gogo.
3. Who is Godo?
Answer: Godot is a mysterious person that Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for. His identity or motives are never clarified.
4. Where does the play take place?
Answer: On the side of a deserted road, where there is only one tree.
5. Who is Pozzo?
Answer: Pozzo is an arrogant man who brings a slave named Lucky.
6. Who is Lucky?
Ans: Lucky is Pozzo's slave, who is tied with a rope and carries a heavy load.
7. What is the significance of the tree in the play?
Answer: The tree symbolizes life, hope and change. In the second digit, it grows leaves.
8. Why are Vladimir and Estragon waiting for Godot?
Answer: They think Godo will actually remove the meaninglessness of their lives, but the exact reason for this is unclear.
9. When does Lucky talk?
Answer: Lucky only speaks once, when he is asked to "think". He then gave a long, incoherent speech.
10. How is the concept of time presented in the play?
Answer: Time is vague and confusing. Characters often forget what happened and the days seem like one another.
11. How do Vladimir and Estragon spend their time?
Answer: They talk, argue, play and sometimes think of suicide.
12. Which show is repeatedly mentioned in the play?
Answer: Estragon's boots, which do not fit his feet properly.
13. Who is Godor's messenger?
Answer: A boy, who comes every day and says that Godo will not come today, will come tomorrow.
14. How does Pozzo change to the second digit?
Answer: Pozzo becomes blind and becomes completely dependent on Lucky.
15. What is the significance of the phrase "nothing to be right" in the play?
Answer: It highlights the futility of life and the helplessness of man.
16. Why don't Vladimir and Estragon leave each other?
Answer: They depend on each other and being together makes the loneliness of life a little less.
17. How is humor used in the play?
Answer: Through humorous dialogues and actions even in tragic situations.
18. How is the clothing of the characters described?
Answer: Their clothes are tattered and dirty, which reveals their poor and depressed condition.
19. Where is the influence of Christianity seen in the play?
Answer: Biblical references, the story of the crucified bandit, and anticipation of redemption.
20. What is the significance of Lucky Dance?
Answer: It symbolizes humanity's degradation and suffering existence.
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