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Hamlet and Godot Flashcards

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Ha: “How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this _”

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World

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In which act and scene is the first changing of the guard, where the guards first come into contact with the Ghost?

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Act 1 Scene 1

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In what act and scene is Hamlet’s first soliloquy?

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Act 1 Scene 2

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Ha: “That the Everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst _”

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Self-slaughter

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The soliloquy fosters an unparalleled _ between Hamlet and the audience

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Intimacy

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In what act and scene does Claudius give his machiavellian speech on the marriage and funeral?

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Act 1 Scene 2

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Ha: “O that this too too _ flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew”

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Soid/Sullied

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The root of soliloquy, ‘sol’, is a word meaning one or _

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Alone

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What act and scene are we first introduced to Hamlet?

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Act 1 Scene 2

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“_ generally symbolize people’s regard for each other” - Costello

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Flowers

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“In her madness _ suddenly comes alive as a character and forces us to reckon with her innuendoes” - Charney

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Ophelia

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”[. . .] her madness reveals the silent _ who is suffering acutely from her passive acceptance of things” - Charney

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Woman

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Who said Hamlet’s relationship with his mother had elements of a dimly defined “erotic quality”

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Ernest Jones

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“Hamlet’s own instincts are towards undoing, rather than _” - Emma Smith

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Doing

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Mild mental illness however still in touch with reality

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Neurosis

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“Hamlet is thought-sick not brainsick - he is neurotic not _” - Harry Levin

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Psychotic

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“We can image Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without _” - Lee Edwards

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Hamlet

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18
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Word meaning greater than the sum of its parts

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Synergy

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“Perhaps only a _ Ophelia of multiple perspectives, more than the sum of all her parts” - Showalter

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Cubist

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“The doubling in Hamlet can obviously be a means of slowing down the _” - Kermode

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Action

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“No poet has begun to master dramatic verse until he can write lines which, like these in Hamlet, are _” - T.S. Eliot

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Transparent

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Who calls Hamlet a poem unlimited?

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Harold Bloom

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“The ghost appears to four separate witnesses: no one can think it a psychological _” - Mullan

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Projection

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“Revenge is a kind of _ which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out” - Bacon

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Wild Justice

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“Taking revenge could never settle the matter for Hamlet, because the root cause of his quandary lies deeper than his _ “ - Ryan

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Uncle’s Villany

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“The play is obliquely concerned with the question of who would success the unmarried _” - Emma Smith

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Queen Elizabeth

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“Shakespeare forces Hamlet to wrestle with a series of ethical problems that he must resolve before he can _” - Shapiro

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Act

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“With Hamlet, a play poised midway between areligious past and a _ future” - Shapiro

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Secular

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“Elizabethan drama had its roots in a morality tradition in which the struggle between the forces of good and evil had been _”

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Externalised

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“These texts challenge the traditional _ between play and spectator or reader because they deny willing suspension of disbelief”

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Contract

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“Beckett populates his _ with many characters, including a whole class of little boys and girls”

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Offstage

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“Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume: one of the thieves was _”

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Damned

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“To find a form that accommodates the _, that is the task of the artist” - Beckett

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mess

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“The first act of _ consists in evading what one cannot evade, in evading what one is” - Martin Esslin

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Bad faith

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“I seek, like a caged beast born of _ born in a cage and dead in a cage, born and then dead…” - Beckett, The Unnamable

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Cage beasts

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“The Theatre of the Absurd presents irrationality of the human condition through the abandonment of _” - Martin Esslin

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Rational devices

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“Absurd is that which is devoid of _” - Ionesco

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Purpose

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One who lives life to the full, hates death and is condemned to a meaningless task

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Absurd Hero

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The memory of the good pasts

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Memoria Praeteritorum Bonorum

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40
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“Hamlet needs to _, but there is nobody in whom he can confide” - Shapiro

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Talk

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41
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“There was more than enough _ to go around in England in the final years of Elizabeth’s reign” - James Shapiro

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Uncertainty

42
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“In any case, one is always caught in a period in which _ has no purpose and waiting is the only goal” - Jeffrey Bigham

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Time

43
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Relating to dreams or dreaming

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Oneiric

44
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“The subject of the play is not Godot, but _” - Martin Esslin

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Waiting

45
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The etymology of Fortinbras is fortis meaning _ and bras meaning arm

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Strong

46
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In the Sean Mathias broadway production and Michael Lindsay-Hogg adaptation of WFG _ is given a white beard

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Estragon

47
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Electra’s father was murdered by her mother and her lover. Like _, Electra seeks to avenge her father’s death

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Hamlet

48
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“The end is the beginning and yet you _” - Beckett, Endgame

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Go on

49
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“Beckett’s great innovation in Godot is to question the _ previous playwrights felt obliged to respect” - Michael Worton

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Formal Structure

50
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“The very act of waiting becomes Beckett’s exposition of the _ people construct in order to pass the hours” - Harold Bloom

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Games and rituals

51
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A rule (moral) intended to regulate behaviour or thought

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Precept

52
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“The source of the protagonists’ _ is their inability to choose to separate or to choose not to wait” - Athanasius Ayuk

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Tragedy

53
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“The _ [tries] to achieve a unity between its basic assumptions and the form in which these are expressed” - Martin Esslin

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Theatre of the absurd

54
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“The boy is just nature, leading us to want and think we are on the verge of knowing _” - Bob Corbett

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Truth absolute

55
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“Beckett’s great innovation in Godot is to offer a _ or representation of reality” - Michael Worton

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Mimesis

56
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In which Hamlet adaptation is it made to seem that Hamlet is trying to protect Ophelia in Act 3 Scene 1?

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Gregory Doran

57
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In which Hamlet adaptation are Ophelia’s actions in Act 4 Scene 5 (madness) always performed spontaneously and off-the-cuff?

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Gregory Doran

58
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Who argues that the boy cannot be a messenger from Godot as there is no Godot to bring messages from?

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Bob Corbett

59
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What was the name of King Agamemnon’s daughter who largely went through the same circumstances as Hamlet?

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Electra

60
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The etymology of Gertrude is ger meaning _ and trut meaning dear

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Spear

61
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“I am interested in the _ of ideas, even if i do not believe in them” - Beckett

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Shape

62
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What is the Proto-Germanic etymology of the word dream?

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Deception/Illusion

63
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The space created by something not being there

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Negative Space

64
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In which Hamlet adaptation is it made to seem that Hamlet is trying to punish Ophelia in Act 3 Scene 1?

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Kenneth Branagh

65
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V: “Well? Shall we go?” E: “Yes, let’s go. (They do not _)”

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Move

66
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E: “And if he comes?” V: “We’ll be _”

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Saved

67
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E: “If we parted? That might be better for us” V: “We’ll hang ourselves tomorrow. Unless _ comes”

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Godot

68
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E: “I can’t go on like this” V: “That’s what you _”

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Think

69
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“(E loosens the cord that holds up his trousers which, much too big for him, _)”

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Fall about his ankles

70
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E: “Why don’t we _ ourselves”

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Hang

71
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E: “If we dropped him?” V: “He’d _. Everything’s dead but the tree”

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Punish Us

72
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E: “Oh yes, let’s go far away from here” “We can’t” “Why not?” “We have to come back _” “What for?” “To wait for Godot”

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Tomorrow

73
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“(V makes a sudden spring forward, the Boy avoids him and exit _) “

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Running

74
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E: “I’m _” V: “So am I”

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Going

75
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V: “(Softly) Has he a beard, Mr Godot?” B: “I think it’s _, sir”

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White

76
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V: “What does he do Mr Godot?” B: “He does _, sir”

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Nothing

77
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V: “At me too someone is looking of me too someone is saying, he is sleeping, he knows nothing, _. I can’t go on!”

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Let him sleep on

78
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V: “He’ll _. He’ll tell me about the blows he received and I’ll give him a carrot”

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Know nothing

79
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V: “Was I sleeping, while the others _? Am I sleeping now?”

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Suffered

80
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E: “Are you sure it wasn’t him” V: “Not at all! (_) Not at all! (Still _) Not at all!”

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Less sure

81
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V: “It seemed to me he saw us” E: “You _ it. Let’s go. We can’t. Ah!”

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Dreamt

82
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E: “I was dreaming that -“ V: “(Violently) Don’t _!”

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Tell me

83
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E: “Why will you never let me sleep?” V: “I felt _” E: “I was dreaming I was happy” V: “That passed the time”

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Lonely

84
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P: “They give birth astride of a _, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more”

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Grave

85
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P: “One day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we were born, one day we shall _”

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Die

86
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P: “Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed _”

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Time

87
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P: “We wait till we can _. Then we go on. On!”

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Get up

88
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V: What is there in the bag?” P: “_”

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Sand

89
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P: “But tomorrow I won’t _ having met anyone today”

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Remember

90
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“(With sudden fury E starts _ L, hurling abuse at him as he does so. But he hurts his foot and moves away limping and groaning)”

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Kicking

91
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E: “He seems to be sleeping. Perhaps he’s _”

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Dead

92
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V: “(Looking around) It’s indescribable. It’s like nothing. There’s nothing. There’s a _”

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Tree

93
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P: “The blind have no notion of _”

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Time

94
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P: “I woke up one fine day as blind as _. Sometimes I wonder if I’m not still asleep”

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Fortune

95
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V: “Can’t you see he’s thinking of the days when he was _? Memoria praeteritorum bonorum”

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Happy

96
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V: “(Inspecting the _) Seven o’clock… eight o’clock”

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Sky

97
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V: “Damn it, can’t you see the man is _!” E: “Damn it, so he is. So he says”

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Blind

98
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P: “I am blind” E: “Perhaps he can see into the _”

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Future

99
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“(They help Pozzo to his feet, let him go. He _)”

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Falls

100
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E: “(They get up) Child’s play” V: “Simple question of _”

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Will-power

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