Geoffrey McQuilkin
After careful considerations and rereading the play and seeing that my teammates disagree with my position, I may have had a change of heart about what the meaning of the play is. Maybe the play is critique of passivity. I know that directly contradicts my last post but so be it. Perhaps Beckett wanted to call the audience to action by showing the petty non-occurrences that accompany a passive life style.
"Let us do something, while we have the chance€¦Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!"
It is possible that Beckett wants to motivate the audience to do something meaningful with their lives by showing them two acts of life that is limitless in potential, yet absurdly monotonous. Perhaps the fact that Pozzo and Lucky go blind and dumb (respectively) in Act II is meant to serve as a reminder of how precious the gift of life is and how we should never waste it in petty conflicts and hollow repetition. Carpe Diem indeed!