Waiting for Godot Lesson Plan

Pozzo says that Lucky once thought coherently and spoke with eloquence, but things have changed. How does Lucky’s "thinking" monologue ultimately fulfill this promise? What might Beckett wish to suggest with the fact that Lucky was once able to think clearly, but is now only able to produce a jumble of jargon that loses its thread of meaning?

Lucky's "thinking" is a postmodern jumble of terms and half-thoughts: it repeatedly comes close to expressing a full idea, but gets distracted from its purpose and ends without having said much of anything. Here, Beckett may have been making a commentary on the academia, punditry, and commentary of his time, which tended (as they...