Lucky (character)

Lucky is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. A slave to the character Pozzo, he is usually portrayed as an emaciated and ragged husk of humanity (even more so than Vladimir and Estragon), with long white hair (usually covered by his hat). His props include a picnic basket, a coat, and a suitcase full of sand.

Related Topics:
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot - Slave - Pozzo - Humanity - Vladimir - Estragon

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Perhaps the most cryptic and bizarre of Beckett's four hapless victims of fate, Lucky is unique in a play where most of the characters talk incessantly: he only utters two sentences (one of which happens to be more than seven hundred words long; see The monologue). Lucky suffers at the hands of Pozzo entirely 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, he usually stands in one spot drooling or sleeping (if he stands there long enough). Throughout the play, he does little more than this, except for his famous speech.

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