{"id":233,"date":"2008-12-04T19:41:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T23:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/04\/why-is-it-different-from-reality-pozzo-becomes-blind-in-one-night-and-helpless-in-one-night\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T19:41:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T23:41:46","slug":"why-is-it-different-from-reality-pozzo-becomes-blind-in-one-night-and-helpless-in-one-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/04\/why-is-it-different-from-reality-pozzo-becomes-blind-in-one-night-and-helpless-in-one-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it Different From Reality?-Pozzo becomes blind in one night and helpless in one night."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Houdek<\/p>\n<p>As Erica had mentioned, in <em>Waiting For Godot<\/em>, Pozzo becomes blind in one night and helpless in one night.\u00a0 Because Waiting for Godot does not operate on a linear time scale, the one night is irrelevant.\u00a0 Although it may attract the\u00a0audience because it has happened so &#8220;suddenly,&#8221; one night could\u00a0be as little as one night or as long as one&#8217;s lifetime.\u00a0 As Pozzo enters the play, he is indeed somewhat of a powerful man, construed to be much more well off than Lucky.\u00a0 However, regardless of his fortune and power, Pozzo eventually ends up helpless and blind.\u00a0 Perhaps Pozzo&#8217;s helpless condition represents man&#8217;s mortality.\u00a0 Man eventually will die, whether it be at an old or young age.\u00a0 Pozzo&#8217;s blindness could very well represent man&#8217;s inability to comprehend life.\u00a0 Maybe Beckett is suggesting that regardless of one&#8217;s life experience, man will never truly understand what life is about.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Houdek As Erica had mentioned, in Waiting For Godot, Pozzo becomes blind in one night and helpless in one night.\u00a0 Because Waiting for Godot does not operate on a linear time scale, the one night is irrelevant.\u00a0 Although it may attract the\u00a0audience because it has happened so &#8220;suddenly,&#8221; one night could\u00a0be as little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/04\/why-is-it-different-from-reality-pozzo-becomes-blind-in-one-night-and-helpless-in-one-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is it Different From Reality?-Pozzo becomes blind in one night and helpless in one night.<\/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-233","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\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}