Department of English

• Present by : Heeral A.Bhatt• Roll no. : 07• Batch year : 2013• Semester : 3• Guide by : DR.Dilip Barad• Paper no : 9 (The Modernist Literature) • Unit no : 3 (Waiting for Godot)

Presentation Topic

Symbolic Significance of the Pozzo-Lucky relationship in the play Waiting

For Godot.

Pozzo

Behaviour as a “Master”

The Egoist

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• “A Question! A moment ago you were calling me Sir! In fear and trembling.Now you’re asing me questions.No good will come of this!”

Lucky

slavePuppet

Various interpretations of Pozzo and Lucky as symbols

Master-slave

Pozzo-Lucky autobiographical origin

How Pozzo is Godot himself?

One Way Of Getting Through Life With Someone Else

Body & Intellect

Joyce& Beckett

Capitalist & Protetarian

Colonizer-colonized

Pozzo& Lucky

A Metaphor of Society

Social structure

• Essential distinction between master & slave

Pozzo

• All-Powerfull

Lucky

• Puppet who obeys Pozzo’s commands

The mutual inter –dependence of Pozzo & Lucky

Mankind V/S Christ

Pozzo-Physical aspect of human personality

Lucky-the spiritual

Submitted to..

S.B.Gardi.Department of English, M.K.Bhavanagar University Date – 14/10/2013

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