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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The One TRUE Interpretation
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Wandering through Samuel Beckett's 1953 absurdist play Waiting for Godot.
Did Beckett actually have an interpretation in mind, or did he deliberately write a maximally vague story that everyone could map their own interests onto?
How well does the humour hold up over time? Where does Beckett rank in the canon of absurdist and existentialist writers? What proportion of reported suicides are actually autoerotic asphyxiation accidents? etc
CHAPTERS
- (00:00:00) gooning oneself to death
- (00:05:28) synopsis (nothing happens, twice)
- (00:07:32) Initial reactions + arguing about interpretation
- 00:17:16) What are we waiting for?
- (00:22:09) Religious, Freudian, Marxist interpretations
- (00:26:56) tHaT’s sOOO RANdoM!!
- (00:31:00) Beckett’s fame
- (00:35:01) Beckett vs Camus
- (00:38:02) The One True Interpretation
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