ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Postmodernity, Macguffin
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Modernity/ post modernity are very broad, but relate to the ideas following wwii that the old model of written progress failed. Way estragon and vladimir lived is similar to how people in. France lived post war dirty, poor, devastated world results in their: experiences making sense. Make speech to fill up silence, and avoid thinking about the war. This is becoming insignificant , failure to mean something signifially. Pointing out there their language doesn"t mean anything. Nothing but action (why they talk/act = living) if everything has been taken away from you, then what"s the. 82 vladimir asks what he will do tomorrow. 84 estragon says i can"t go on like this & vladimir says. This play isn"t about godot, it"s about going on even when you think you can"t. V & e think about suicide, but never actually do it, instead they continue to wait for godot) E & v notion god without goddott.
