Waiting for Godot

What is the philosophy that backbones Waiting for Godot?

• Romanticism
• Nihilism
• Absurdism
• Republicanism

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Who is the author of Waiting for Godot?

• Malcolm Gladwell
• Albert Camus
• Samuel Beckett
• Stephen King

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After what war was Waiting for Godot written?

• World War 1
• World War 2
• Vietnam War
• Cold War

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How do Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo) get to where they are in the beginning of the play?

• Bus
• Train
• Walking
• We don't know

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What is Godot?

• A God
• A person
• A bird
• We don't know

Absurdism is a branch of what philosophical school of thought?

• Existentialism
• Metaphysics
• Epistemology
• Agnosticism

Does Godot ever show up?

• Yes
• No

What greatly influenced the existentialist thinkers?

• Rock & Roll
• Nature
• A bad trip
• The World Wars and the unbelievable, godless pain and agony on a massive scale never before concieved

Which other author that we've read also has themes of the Absurd?

• W. B. Yeats
• Franz Kafka
• Woolf
• T. S. Eliot

Why is Pozzo blind in the second act?

• His eyes were taken out by a bird
• He got the ol' eye for an eye treatment
• He was blind the whole time
• We don't know

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