The relationship between Pozzo and Lucky illustrates well the complexities of the relationship between England and Ireland. At first glance, Pozzo (England; the colonizer) leads Lucky (Ireland; the colonized) around by the throat, forcing him to go where he leads, at the pace he leads. Pozzo insults Lucky by calling him names and threatening to sell him to a stranger in town. Lucky endures the abuse, even crying at the thought of being separated from Pozzo. However, a closer examination of the duo reveals that they are indeed interdependent.
Lucky attends to Pozzo's every whim and carries all of his baggage. This could be viewed as a reference to Ireland as the workhorse of the British Empire, providing nearly all of the food for England. (As an example, the Irish Potato Famine starved out so many in Ireland because the English would not reduce their dependence on Irish agriculture, taking just as much from the country as before the blight.) As Ireland served as the agricultural force for England, it was still dependent on England for military protection and industry.
One could argue that the interdependence between the two is only the result of a corrupting force, i.e. imperialism. England is only dependent on Ireland because it outsources its agriculture and has no means of feeding its people without them; Ireland cannot defend itself because it was taken over by force by the British military, which now protects it. Pozzo alludes to this circular fate by reasoning that he could have been the slave if circumstances were different.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Discuss the relationship between Pozzo and Lucky in "Waiting for Godot" from the post-colonial perspectives?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Why is the fact that the Americans are helping the Russians important?
In the late author Tom Clancy’s first novel, The Hunt for Red October, the assistance rendered to the Russians by the United States is impor...
-
There are a plethora of rules that Jonas and the other citizens must follow. Again, page numbers will vary given the edition of the book tha...
-
The poem contrasts the nighttime, imaginative world of a child with his daytime, prosaic world. In the first stanza, the child, on going to ...
-
The given two points of the exponential function are (2,24) and (3,144). To determine the exponential function y=ab^x plug-in the given x an...
-
The only example of simile in "The Lottery"—and a particularly weak one at that—is when Mrs. Hutchinson taps Mrs. Delacroix on the...
-
Hello! This expression is already a sum of two numbers, sin(32) and sin(54). Probably you want or express it as a product, or as an expressi...
-
Macbeth is reflecting on the Weird Sisters' prophecy and its astonishing accuracy. The witches were totally correct in predicting that M...
-
The play Duchess of Malfi is named after the character and real life historical tragic figure of Duchess of Malfi who was the regent of the ...
No comments:
Post a Comment