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Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead Randomness Quotes

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Randomness is a theme in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that affects Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and their inability to make decisions.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opens with the two characters flipping coins, with the coins landing heads up each time. This leads the characters to examine the laws of probability, which is when the concept of randomness is introduced. It is decided that randomness overpowers probability, which led to the repeated outcome. No matter how many times Guildenstern flips a coin, the result is out of his power. This suggests that there is no way to control randomness and the outcome it yields. Tom Stoppard suggests that randomness is a factor that affects the characters and the readers. The coin

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