“Where do we come in”? Responding to Otherness in Waiting for Godot
Ciaran Ross
This article proposes an analysis of the ethical tensions and temptations in Waiting for Godot and centres on the relationship between the two couples. It takes into consideration the intertext of “The Capital of the Ruins,” a radio script Beckett wrote in 1946, where relations between Irish and French are described in ambiguous dialectical terms. Responding to otherness in Godot is not limited to an analysis of the interplay between “We” and “They.” Otherness inhabits the Vladimir-Estragon relationship, which may explain why the encounter with the Other is always about a non-appropriative or non-recuperative encounter with the other or otherness.
Cet article propose une analyse de Waiting for Godot et se concentre sur les tensions et les tentations éthiques qui marquent les rapports entre les deux couples. « The Capital of the Ruins » sera considéré ici comme un intertexte édifiant où Beckett qualifie d’éthiques les rapports entre les Français et les Irlandais, non sans ambiguïté et dérision cependant. Dans Godot répondre à l’autre ne concerne pas que les relations entre Nous et Ils. Le couple formé par Vladimir et Estragon est constamment guetté par l’autre, ce qui peut expliquer pourquoi la rencontre avec l’autre s’avère toujours sans compromis et sans concession.
• “Our Condition is to be thought again”: Beckett’s Other Operating-Theatre
• A-Voiding time or History A-Voided
• Getting at least as good as you give: the interplay between We and They
• “trouble shared is trouble … something” (Molloy): What are We doing?
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