Waiting for Godot

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Waiting for Godot

• An Explanation By
• Darren Brett

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Hold Onto Your Hats! -

• The next word we talked about in class is the
  one that truly drives this artifact APOCALYPSE,
  a great ending or beginning. Either way works in
  this scene, because it is left to the viewer.
  The reason that this scene works so well, is that
  it leaves the idea of what exactly Vladimir and
  Estragons great END/BEGINNING really is. I
  believe that they are waiting for the Apocalypse
  of their world. Godot, is God in this scene, and
  the uncertainty that Vladimir and Estragon have
  of meeting the end of their demise (or the end of
  everything as we know it) drives them to keep
  waiting waiting for Godot to show up. But what
  this scene really says to me is that by waiting
  everyday for Godot, Vladimir and Estragon forget
  how to live. They do the same thing day in and
  day out, waiting for someone (or something) that
  they arent even sure exists. Alive on the
  outsidedead inside.
• They themselves become apocalyptic.

• We began this semesters class with one
  wordCONTEXT. In using this word to its utmost
  ability, I decided to give the context of my
  artifact LIFE. In the Irish play by Samuel
  Beckett, WAITING FOR GODOT, one word always
  seemed to be screaming out at meLife.
  Ironically, in order to achieve the context of
  life, I decided to put a scene from the play on
  DVD (and in doing so, took away life), creating a
  virtual world in which I (Darren Brett) became
  all three characters in the scene. I was able to
  give all three of these characters life by
  changing their environment to a limbo
  virtuality if you will. I would not have been
  able to achieve this context without using the
  context of virtuality.

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Shhh Did You Hear That?

• The underscore of music, it turns out, became a
  very important piece of the puzzle. If you
  listen closely, youll recognize that the score
  is looped over and over again to where you
  realize there is NO beginning and NO end to the
  piece. I wanted to choose something that was fun
  to listen to, but in using a fugue I was also
  able to accomplish a sense of sadness as well.
  The fugue by Bach was a great mood-setter, a
  great deadener as well.

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God Bless America

• When I think of the word AMERICA, there are
  many other words and images that come to mind.
  But one stands out above all else, God. Whether
  the western side of the world likes to admit it
  or not, there is one thing that keeps America
  separate from the East God. Just look at the
  United States money, its churches, its fight
  songs, and battle cries. God, whether we choose
  to believe or not, is everywhere we look. In
  Central and South America, you will find that
  most believe in Christianity above all else. I
  believe that Vladimir and Estragon are part of
  that America. The part where they believe God is
  going to come and fix all their problems, God is
  the answer, God is everything and nothing, God
  controls the Apocalypse of the world, their fate.

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Easy Way Out?

• I know its going to sound like Im full of
  shit, but the truth is that I really dont know
  much about my artifact, other than it controlled
  me more than I controlled it. Two words drove me
  to this thing, and those were APOCALYPSE and
  VIRTUALITY. I believe I achieved an explanation
  through art in answering both of these
  definitions. Where it goes from here is
  uncertain, but I cant wait to find out! Because
  I dont know about you, but I like not knowing if
  Godot is going to show up! What fun would that
  be?