{"id":232,"date":"2008-12-04T19:21:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T23:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/04\/why-is-it-different-from-realityshort-term-memory-lapses\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T19:24:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T23:24:41","slug":"why-is-it-different-from-realityshort-term-memory-lapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/04\/why-is-it-different-from-realityshort-term-memory-lapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it Different From Reality?&#8230;Short Term Memory Lapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Houdek<\/p>\n<p>As Erica had stated, Waiting for Godot is different from reality because the characters from within have short term memory lapses.\u00a0 Thus, the characters are not the most reliable and do not really have an idea about what is going on.\u00a0 Through using short term memory, the whole premise of the stoy becomes ambiguous, perhaps extending the story to all of mankind.\u00a0 While the short term memory displayed by the characters leaves the characters as appearing feeble minded and having no chance of understanding of the things going on around them, perhaps Beckett is suggesting that mankind is too feeble minded to understand the reasons for its own existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Houdek As Erica had stated, Waiting for Godot is different from reality because the characters from within have short term memory lapses.\u00a0 Thus, the characters are not the most reliable and do not really have an idea about what is going on.\u00a0 Through using short term memory, the whole premise of the stoy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/04\/why-is-it-different-from-realityshort-term-memory-lapses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is it Different From Reality?&#8230;Short Term Memory Lapses<\/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-232","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\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}