{"id":223,"date":"2008-11-30T17:38:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/11\/30\/on-becketts-distortion-of-time\/"},"modified":"2008-11-30T17:43:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:43:50","slug":"on-becketts-distortion-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/11\/30\/on-becketts-distortion-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"On Beckett’s Distortion of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Mary Beth<\/p>\n

In Waiting for Godot<\/em>, Beckett distorts time by eliminating the characters’ attachment to time and time’s measure. Time becomes a relative measure. It is not discrete, like it is in reality:<\/p>\n

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ESTRAGON:<\/strong> <\/dt>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/dd>\n

What did we do yesterday? <\/p>\n
VLADIMIR:<\/strong> <\/dt>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/dd>\n

What did we do yesterday? <\/p>\n
ESTRAGON:<\/strong> <\/dt>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/dd>\n

Yes. <\/p>\n
VLADIMIR:<\/strong> <\/dt>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/dd>\n

Why . . . (Angrily.<\/em>) Nothing is certain when you’re about. <\/p>\n
ESTRAGON:<\/strong> <\/dt>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/dd>\n

In my opinion we were here.<\/font><\/font><\/dd>\n
\n<\/dd>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/dt>\n
Vladimir speaks about time in a non-definitive way when he says, “On the other hand what’s the good of losing heart now, that’s what I say.\u00a0 We should have thought about it a million years ago, in the nineties.”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/dt>\n
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Alejandro said, “Space and time, conjunctively misperceived by Didi and Gogo, are warped and blurred,while functioning detrimentally towards the perception of meaningful action.” Beckett may have thrown out the use of consecutive, constant time in order to help the audience focus on the existing (or non-existing) action of the play. <\/dt>\n
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The indefinite arrival of Godot is the largest evidence of the play’s purposeful absence of measured time. <\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Mary Beth In Waiting for Godot, Beckett distorts time by eliminating the characters’ attachment to time and time’s measure. Time becomes a relative measure. It is not discrete, like it is in reality: ESTRAGON: What did we do yesterday? VLADIMIR: What did we do yesterday? ESTRAGON: Yes. VLADIMIR: Why . . . (Angrily.) Nothing … Continue reading On Beckett’s Distortion of Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longman-group-two-why-is-it-different"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}