Monday, November 30, 2009

Waiting For Godot

So in my modern drama class we read the play Waiting for Godot and another student mention how Wikipedia had like 50 different interpretations of the play. Curious I looked it up. Not quite 50 interpretations, but the one that caught my eye was the Freudian Interpretation:

Freudian interpretations

"Bernard Dukore develops a triadic theory in Didi, Gogo and the absent Godot, based on Freud's trinitarian description of the psyche in The Ego and the Id (1923) and the usage of onomastic techniques. Dukore defines the characters by what they lack: the rational Go-go embodies the incomplete ego, the missing pleasure principle: (e)go-(e)go. Di-di (id-id) — who is more instinctual and irrational — is seen as the backward id or subversion of the rational principle. Godot fulfils the function of the superego or moral standards. Pozzo and Lucky are just re-iterations of the main protagonists. Dukore finally sees Beckett's play as a metaphor for the futility of man's existence when salvation is expected from an external entity, and the self is denied introspection."[67]





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