Waiting for godot and Beowulf: Fate

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, silences, and ellipses (three
dots (...) used to create a break in speech) to express a feeling of waiting and
unsureness. There is a twofold purpose behind this technique. For one, it shows
that Vladimir and Estragon, the two main characters who are waiting for Godot,
are unsure of why they are waiting for him. This also foreshadows that they will
be waiting a very long time.

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