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1. Modern Drama
Topic: Critical analysis of Lucky’s speech
Presenter: Muhammad Azeem Yaseen
Sap ID: 10454
Presented to: Sir Shafqat Hussain Zaidi

2. Waiting for Godot
 Beckett was an Irish novelist,
playwright, theatre director and poet.
 He was one of key writers who
belonged to ‘Theatre of Absurd’.
 This play is written by Samuel Barclay
Beckett (1906-1989).
 It was first premiered in 1953 and was
published in 2005.

3. Lucky
 One of the major characters of play.
 Slave and antithesis of Pozzo.
 Addressed as ‘Pig’ by his master.
 Lacks basic human intellect.
 Treated horribly by Pozzo, “ Old dogs
have more dignity”

4. Lucky’s Speech
 Critic Anselm Atkins: “ a paper full of
nonsense-water thrown splat in the
audience face”
 Bottled up monologue from a silent
character.
Stage directions/Reactions
 Vladimir and Estragon listens
attentively.
 Pozzo is disgusted by speech.

5.  Vladimir and Estragon began to
protest, Pozzo sufferings and groaning
began to increase.
 “Hat” as a symbol of intellect and
control.
 All of three overcome Lucky.

6. Structure of Content
 Becket splits Lucky’s speech into
three sections.
i) Existence of God and His relation to
Humanity.
ii) Man wasting away due to
distractions.
iii) Chaos and death as a result of this

7. Existence of God (Text)
“Given the existence…of a personal
God…with white beard…outside
time…who loves us
dearly…suffers…with those who are
plunged in torment…whose fire…will fire
the firmament that is to say blast hell to
heaven…”

8. Man wasting away
“And considering that…it is established
beyond all doubt…that man… (is)
wastes and pines…in spite of…practice
of sports…and concurrently…for
reasons unknown…fades away…”

9. Chaos and Death
“ And considering…that…in the plains in
the mountains by the seas…the air is
the same and then the earth namely
the air…in the great the cold
dark…the earth abode of stones…I
resume the skull fading fading fading
fading…

10. Grammatical Structure
 Non conventional grammatical
structure.
 Stream of Consciousness.
 Parody of philosophical arguments.
 Digressions and repetitions.

11. Context
 Lucky speech is an explorations of the
purpose of thinking, how important
thought is and how we receive other
people thoughts.
 Mid twentieth century existentialism
philosophy.
 Absurdity of human existence.

12. Any Questions?