Beckett Quotes
"Humans contemplate ____ as much as, if not more than ___."
What is 'food'/God'?
The name is Russian in origin and means ____ of the___.
Who is 'Vladimir'? What is 'ruler of the world'?
The name Critics use to refer to WfG's setting.
What is the 'void'?
The 'tough' audience that made the actors and directors apprehensive.
What are '1400 convicts'?
Character who represents the mind, and the character who represents the body.
Who are 'Lucky' and 'Pozzo'?
"___ is a comparison to other ___"
What is 'happiness'/'people'?
Lucky is American/English in origin and is either ____ or _____.
What is 'ironic' or 'appropriate'?
Technically, a musical term describing a closed plot in which there is no escape.
What is a round?
What inmates were told to compare WfG to.
What is 'jazz' music?
The perilous zones are the brief ____ we are unoccupied by_____.
What are 'instances' and 'habit'?
"Other people function to verify our ___"
What is 'existence'?
Meaning the herb tarragon, this 'name' is __ in origin.
Who is 'Estragon'? What is 'French'?
Circular in nature and not unique in any way.
What is time?
Having no preconceived ideas of theatre, the convicts' did not condemn the play for its lack of _____ _____s.
What are 'conventional devices'?
The gist of Lucky's word salad.
What is 'God does not communicate with us, feel for us, and condemns us for reasons unknown'?
"____ is the s*** of the ____."
What is 'language'/'mind'?
Pozzo is ____ in origin and means _____.
What is 'Italian' and means 'cesspool'?
The act of evading what one cannot evade - evading what one is.
What is the term 'bad faith'?
Alan Schneider
Who was the director of the first American production of WfG?
According to Beckett, the basic problem of being is that we are constantly being changed by __. Therefore, the nature of ___ is in constant flux and outside our grasp.
What is 'time'/'self'?
[Not a quote - but paraphrased statement]
Beckett states that 'happy endings' are nothing more than _____ _____s.
What are 'false rewards'?
According to Beckett, the name Godot came from __.
What is his imagination? He made it up.
Represents language's attempt to mask the void - an illusion that cannot create meaning.
What are the 'dead voices'?
Alan Schneider's famous question and Beckett's infamous response.
What was "Who or what was meant by Godot" and "If I knew, I would have said so in the play"?
Personality is ____. We are at no single moment, in our lives, identical to _______s.
What is 'retrospective' and 'ourselves'?