R&G Are Finally Dead

“All plots move deathward” –Don DeLillo

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have finally been sent to their deaths. As the play closed I found myself occupied by one question, is this it? I found the ending of the play to be rather anti-climatic and not at all what I had expected. I had thouight that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern would be hung, especiall after the player’s lamentations over his last botched execution. Instead the two merely disappear, and it is later discovered that they are dead. Throught the play, the only thing that they really knew was that they would eventually die.

Who Won?

In order to determine who won it is necessary to define the term “winner.” Is it the team that won the most points? Or is it the team that tried the hardest and gave the best answers? A traditional definition of the term would involve both or either of these two requirements. However, in light of the game’s postmodernism I believe that there were no winners. No matter how one tries to define the term “winner” it will still be a “thing” and that “thing” can very well be applied to every person that participated in the game. (Thank you Toast) This demonstrates that words have no meaning save that which we give them, and as "winner" remains undefined in game terms there can not be one.

My own personal belief outside of the assignment is that the Tails team won because we had more points.

R & G Are Living...for the moment

As we finish Act II of R&G Are Dead I find myself less confused then I was at the beginning of the Act. Luckily, I've managed to finally accept the seemingly random scene changes. Although as I have been reading the play I find myself wondering whether the average reader understands what is truly occurring within. I wonder if anyone that does not analyze the play can truly appreciate it for anything more then a well written parody of Hamlet. Obviously if they have read Hamlet then the meta fiction would stand out, but would any of the postmodern ideas and concepts? This question will probably continue to bug me until I can convince someone not in our class to read both Hamlet and R&G and then give me their opinion on it...an unlikely prospect if there every was one.