{"id":250,"date":"2008-12-08T01:51:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/08\/remix-of-my-first-post\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T01:51:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:51:12","slug":"remix-of-my-first-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/08\/remix-of-my-first-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Remix of my first post&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Geoffrey McQuilkin\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Maybe the play is critique of passivity.\u00a0 \u00a0I know that directly contradicts my last post but so be it.\u00a0 Perhaps Beckett wanted to call the audience to action by showing the petty non-occurrences that accompany a passive life style. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0&quot;Let us do something, while we have the chance\u20ac\u00a6Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!&quot;\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Carpe Diem indeed! <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey McQuilkin\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Maybe the play is critique of passivity.\u00a0 \u00a0I know that directly contradicts my last post but so be it.\u00a0 Perhaps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/12\/08\/remix-of-my-first-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remix of my first post&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[862,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longman-group-three-what-is-it-about","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}