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Lucky is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He is a slave to the character Pozzo.
Lucky is unique in a play where most of the characters talk incessantly: he only utters two
sentences, one of which is more than seven hundred words long (the monologue). Lucky suffers at
the hands of Pozzo willingly and without hesitation. He is "tied" (a favourite theme in Godot) to
Pozzo by a ridiculously long rope in the first act, and then a similarly ridiculous short rope in the
second act. Both tie around his neck. When he is not serving Pozzo, he usually stands in one spot
drooling, or sleeping if he stands there long enough. His props include a picnic basket, a coat, and a
suitcase full of sand.
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1Interpretation
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Interpretation[edit]
Lucky's place in Waiting for Godot has been heavily debated. Even his name is somewhat elusive.
Some have marked him as "lucky" because he is "lucky in the context of the play." He does not have
to search for things to occupy his time, which is a major pastime of the other characters. Pozzo tells
him what to do, he does it, and is therefore lucky because his actions are determined absolutely.
Beckett asserted, however, that he is lucky because he has "no expectations". [citation needed] Another
interpretation is (somewhat facetiously) that he is lucky because he has only two lines. In the French
version of the play, he is known by the same name as he is in the English version, rather than
the French word for "lucky", Chanceux.
The monologue[edit]
Lucky is most famous for his speech in Act I. The monologue is prompted by Pozzo when the tramps
ask him to make Lucky "think". He asks them to give him his hat: when Lucky wears his hat, he is
capable of thinking. The monologue is long, rambling word salad, and does not have any apparent
end; it is only stopped when Vladimir takes the hat back. Within the gibberish Lucky makes
comments on the arbitrary nature of God, man's tendency to pine and fade away, and towards the
end, the decaying state of the earth. His ramblings may be loosely based around the theories of
the Irish philosopher Bishop Berkeley.[citation needed]
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