Its realism is indispensable to its critical function his creatures are victims both of a high degree of expectation sponsored by centuries of rational confidence and of their own sobering recognitions of things as they miserably are . The two languages--that of a metaphysically stimulated confidence , that of an existential limitation--sometimes clash . Always , in Godot , the dash is there , though it is often merely implicit . The impact of situational realism is especially strong when it is defined within the limits of...











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