Same voice? 8th post for Idiot Savant

Did anyone notice that during the play, the giant duck and the voice over were the exact same voice? This shows how the duck also represented his sanity and thought. At first he was merely arguing with himself, yelling to nowhere and no one, but at the end the duck comes on stage and the Idiot Savant seems to be a little more clear in everything that he does. It is almost as though the duck is his back up; just as when the play is nearing the end and the Idiot Savant is still being toyed with by the girls, the duck comes on stage to provide him with some help. it always did seem that Wilem Defoe's character was more understandable when the duck was on stage. His actions were swifter and his words were more clear. By having the duck on stage is showed to us all that the Idiot Savant was ready to not be tortured by those women any more. This is all becuse the Idiot Savant throughout the entire play was uncomforable and very irritable. He was never allowed to be left alone because he was always under questioning by the women on stage.

Even though the duck was around in the beginning (we know this because they were exactly the same voice), he was not on stage and therefore not much help to the Idiot Savant. This is why the Idiot Savant got so angry. It is because this giant duck was merely talking to him and not giving him much help. By making his presence at the end the duck was able to provide support for Wilem Defoe's character. Even though the duck did not do anything, that was not his purpose, he was only there to represent the coherence of the Idiot Savant and he did indeed do his job. It almost seemed anticlimactic in the sense that just as the play is about to finish, the duck makes big appearance to help out the Idiot Savant, meanwhile throughout the entire performance, much assistance was also needed.