Lucky ( Waiting for Godot ) Mehdi Bajestani , as Lucky , ( from a production by Naqshineh Theatre ) . Lucky is a character from Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot . He is a slave to the character Pozzo . Spoiler warning : Plot and/or ending details follow . Lucky is unique in a play where most of the characters talk incessantly : he only utters two sentences ( one of which is more than seven hundred words long ; see The monologue ) . Lucky suffers at the hands of Pozzo 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 Pozzo , he usually stands in one spot drooling or sleeping , if he stands there long enough . His props include a picnic basket , a coat , and a suitcase full of sand . Interpretation Lucky 's place in Waiting for Godot has been heavily debated . Even his name is somewhat elusive . Some have marked him as `` lucky '' because he is `` lucky in the context of the play '' : he does not have to search for things to occupy his time , which is a major pastime of the other characters . Pozzo tells him what to do , does it , and is therefore lucky because his actions are determined absolutely . Beckett asserted , however , that he is lucky because he has `` no expectations '' . Another interpretation is ( somewhat facetiously ) that he is lucky because he has only two lines . In the French version of the play , he is known by the same name as he is in the English version , rather than the French word for `` lucky '' , Chanceux . Lucky and Vladimir Lucky is often compared to Vladimir ( just as Pozzo is compared to Estragon ) as being the intellectual , left-brained part of his character duo ( i.e. he represents one part of a larger , whole character , whose other half is represented by Pozzo ) . Read his way , Pozzo and Lucky are simply an extreme form of the relationship between Vladimir and Estragon ( the hapless impulsive and the intellect who protects him ) . He philosophises , like Vladimir , and is integral to Pozzo 's survival , especially in the second act . In the second act , Lucky becomes mute . Pozzo mourns this , despite the fact that it was he who silenced Lucky in the first act . The monologue Lucky is most famous for his speech in Act I. The monologue is prompted by Pozzo when the tramps ask him to make Lucky `` think '' . He asks them to give him his hat : when Lucky wears his hat , he is capable of thinking . The monologue is long , rambling , and does not have any apparent end ; it is only stopped when Vladimir takes the hat back . The text includes some sexual references and toilet humour , albeit subtly . However , within the gibberish Lucky also makes some rather deep comments on the arbitrary nature of God , man 's tendency to pine and fade away , and towards the end , the decaying state of the earth . His ramblings thoughts may be loosely based around the theories of the Irish philosopher Bishop Berkeley . Related links Estragon Vladimir Pozzo Waiting for Godot External links A source of various interpretations Pozzo and Lucky The Plays of Samuel Beckett Act Without Words I , Act Without Words II , Breath , Catastrophe , Come and Go , Eleutheria ( posthumous ) , Endgame , Film ( screenplay ) , Footfalls , Happy Days , Krapp 's Last Tape , Not I , Ohio Impromptu , A Piece of Monologue , Play , Rockaby , Rough for Theatre I , Rough for Theatre II , That Time , Waiting for Godot , What Where Categories : Samuel Beckett characters 