{"id":228,"date":"2008-12-04T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/04\/why-is-it-different-from-reality-time\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T20:39:12","slug":"why-is-it-different-from-reality-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/04\/why-is-it-different-from-reality-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it different from reality? Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Houdek<\/p>\n<p>As Alejandro and Mary Beth have stated, <em>Waiting For Godot<\/em> is different from reality because there is immense ambiguity in the perception of time.\u00a0 I feel that Beckett has presented this ambiguity for a number of reasons.\u00a0 First, the inibility of the characters to grasp the true concept of time helps to invoke a sense of hopelessness and cluelessness upon the audience.\u00a0 When looking at the title, the concept of time is expressed in the word <em>waiting<\/em>.\u00a0 The characters spend all of their time waiting for Godot, which turns out to be fruitless.\u00a0 Perhaps because the audience cannot\u00a0identify the time that is parallell with the play,\u00a0<em>Waiting For Godot<\/em> suggests that the hopeless struggle presented in the play applies to man as a whole.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Houdek As Alejandro and Mary Beth have stated, Waiting For Godot is different from reality because there is immense ambiguity in the perception of time.\u00a0 I feel that Beckett has presented this ambiguity for a number of reasons.\u00a0 First, the inibility of the characters to grasp the true concept of time helps to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/04\/why-is-it-different-from-reality-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is it different from reality? Time&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","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\/228","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}