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Essay Archive - Waiting for godot and Beowulf: Fate
Waiting for godot and Beowulf: Fate
Reading a work of literature often makes a reader experience certain feelings.
These feeling differ with the content of the work, and are usually needed to
perceive the author's ideas in the work. For example, Samuel Beckett augments a
reader's understanding of Waiting For Godot by conveying a mood, (one which the
characters in the play experience), to the reader. Similarly, a dominant mood is
thrust upon a reader in Beowulf. These moods which are conveyed aid the author
in conveying ideas to a reader.
In Waiting for Godot, Beckett uses many pauses, silences, and ellipses ....
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