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Heeral A.Bhatt
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DR.Dilip Barad
9 (The Modernist
Literature)
: 3 (Waiting for Godot)

2. Presentation Topic
Symbolic Significance of the PozzoLucky relationship in the play Waiting
For Godot.

3. Pozzo
The Egoist
Behaviour as
a “Master”

4. Continue
• “A Question! A moment ago you were calling
me Sir! In fear and trembling.Now you’re asing
me questions.No good will come of this!”

5. Lucky
Puppet
slave

6. Various interpretations of Pozzo and
Lucky as symbols
Master-slave
Pozzo-Lucky
autobiographical origin
How Pozzo is Godot
himself?

7. One Way Of Getting Through Life With
Someone Else
Body & Intellect
Joyce& Beckett
Pozzo& Lucky
Capitalist &
Protetarian
Colonizer-colonized

8. A Metaphor of Society
Social structure
• Essential distinction between master & slave
Pozzo
• All-Powerfull
Lucky
• Puppet who obeys Pozzo’s commands

9. The mutual inter –dependence of
Pozzo & Lucky

10. Mankind V/S Christ
Pozzo-Physical aspect of human
personality
Lucky-the spiritual

11. Submitted to..
S.B.Gardi.Department of English,
M.K.Bhavanagar University
Date – 14/10/2013
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