Essy And Possy

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in its sense
of purity, creating images and sensations, not restriciting the reader to
mere words.

Lucky's speech is preceded by Vladimir reqesting Pozzo make Lucky
speak. Pozzo insits that Lucky needs his hat to do so. After Lucky has
his hat placed upon his head, Pozzo orders him to "Think!" Lucky begins,
while the others create a sense confusion: Pozzo becomes increasingly
appalled by Lucky's words, while Vladimir and Estragon waiver between
attentiveness and disgusted pain.

The speech is reflective of the rest of the play (and transitively,
life itself), and therefore open to interpretation. In fact, Beckett
himself stated the great importance of the passage, suggesting that one
note the "ups and downs" of the speech; here, he said, one could find
"hope".

The passage becomes something of a Rorschach image with its layers
of symbols and tones, perhaps paradoxical. Potential allusions, sometimes
masked or bastardized, litter the prose, as well as sophistric names ...

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