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Monster Essays - Beowulf and Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot
Beowulf and Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot
      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, s....
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