Editing Lucky (Waiting for Godot) (section)

{{Short description|One of the supporting characters in Waiting for Godot}}[[Image:Naqshineh-Bajestani_2.jpg|thumb|right|[[Mehdi Bajestani]], as '''Lucky''', (from a production by [[Naqshineh Theatre]]).]]
'''Lucky''' is a character from [[Samuel Beckett]]'s ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''. He is a [[slavery|slave]] to the character [[Pozzo (Waiting for Godot)|Pozzo]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Times |first=The New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-BIGv9vIoqcC |title=The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, Second Edition: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind |date=2007-10-30 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-312-37659-8 |pages=127 |language=en}}</ref>

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 (the monologue). Lucky suffers at the hands of Pozzo willingly and without hesitation. He is "tied" (a key 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Listengarten |first=Julia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsCvKjJANOEC |title=Russian Tragifarce: Its Cultural and Political Roots |date=2000 |publisher=Susquehanna University Press |isbn=978-1-57591-033-8 |pages=171–173 |language=en}}</ref> 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.