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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead;


The first thing that comes to mind is the coin toss scene of the play. It provides the foundational theme with meticulous repeated actions of
the two titular characters who are apparently unknown to themselves as the question of identity haunts porously. The theories discussed by
Guildenstern primarily come to the forefront. The law of averages, time, the infinite monkey theory serves as paradigm figures to acknowledge
and re-appropriate inclusivity for in a roundabout absurdist dilemma for ‘heads’ appear and re-appear without stoppage. Meditating upon
these ideas Stoppard builds up his rhetoric of by approaching a non-informative stance to a reader not versed in these theories. That the law
of averages constitutes the fundamental observations of the Universe’s randomness calibrated though an imaginable shaft of balance whose
perpetuation rings out in favour and often not at times, Guildenstern ponders upon this principle as he worries his intuitive remarks about the
‘rottenness’ that surround them falls to deaf ears as Rosencrantz, the owner of the heavier bag of coins is busy collecting the coin he won,
becomes a gap in achieving realization of what is amiss for the nascent observer who is bound to be thrown to confusion at his reading and
observation of the play enacted. Another one of the tricks this reality imposes is the variablity of their identities. R and G confuse themselves
throughout the span of the plot and are twisted hence and there as they find themselves displaced between timelines and settings. At times
the intertextual boundaries bear too great a burden as referenced in their inner monologues.

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