te rog sa arati diferentele intre COMPORTAMENTUL SOCIAL al personajelor din piesa si

comportamentul stipulat in Manifest

diferentele intre ce ar trebui sa faca personajele ca sa semene cu ce prezice Manifestul si ce nu
fac ele.

- Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two
great classes directly facing each other – Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.

Beckett’s “society” is not split into two great hostile camps, they are but skeletons of
humanity. The characters represent remnants of humanity, pieces of a past that they are
describing as being glorious, Vladimir and Estragon reminisce about their everlasting
friendship while Pozzo and Lucky share a past where the roles have not always been as they
are now. Although they are two different couples, they are the same: humans subjected to the
punishment of their own actions and words.

- The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked
up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet,
the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil and has reduced the
family relation to a mere money relation.

Pozzo could encompass all the above mentioned occupations “the physician, the lawyer, the
priest, the poet, the man of science” as he is presented as an intelligent and well versed man who
can go on speaking about himself among other things all day long, but he is nevertheless
constrained to the same confines as the rest of the characters because he is not able to see that he
too is fallible and is doomed to foreshadow his own downfall.

There is also no “sentimental veil” between him and Lucky, as their