Similarities Between Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead Stoppard

In Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Stoppard tries to prove the idea that a person’s imagination could be another’s reality. He tries to prove a singular person’s experience is unique to them and only them. However, when that person tries to share their story many will not believe it. Even more so, if a person tells many people who believe them, their story will become warped and mangled because each person tries to explain in reference to what they know. The first mention of situation where a character tries to explain their experience to another is during Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s first coin flipping section. Guildenstern says to Rosencrantz “This is not the first time we have spun coins!” to which Rosencrantz replies “Oh, no---we’ve
Guildenstern is trying to justify and explain his and Rosencrantz’s experience of flipping a coin and having it land only on heads. Guildenstern says “The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear.” He keeps going on saying that probability only works in the real world and since the coin can flip, they’re not surrounded by “un-, sub- or supernatural forces.” However, it’s not flipping correctly because coins usually have an equal chance of being heads and tails. Guildenstern is began by saying people try to explain things through logical means that they can’t digest in response to fear. Random events are terrifying. When things can’t be explained and have no foreseeable cause many people go to great lengths to fit the event into a box in their mind so they can deal with it in their own
Guildenstern tells a story about a man who sees a unicorn in a place with “no name, character, population or significance.” Later, when another man sees the unicorn he says “My God,... I must be dreaming I thought I saw a unicorn.” Guildenstern points out that every person after the second man that sees the unicorn spreads the dimension thinner until it forms with reality. However, somewhere along the line of sightings the person couldn’t comprehend that there was a unicorn in front of them so they fit it into the box of animals that they knew i.e. “a horse with an arrow in its forehead! It must have been mistaken for a