Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.

ROS I want to go home.

GUIL Don’t let them confuse you.

ROS I’m out of my step here—

GUIL We’ll soon be home and high—dry and home—I’ll—

ROS It’s all over my depth—

GUIL —I’ll hie you home and—

ROS —out of my head—

GUIL —dry you high and—

ROS (cracking, high) —over my step over my head body!—I tell you it’s all stopping to a death, it’s boding to a depth, stepping to a head, it’s all heading to a dead stop—

GUIL (the nursemaid) There! . . . and we’ll soon be home and dry . . . and high and dry.

What is the effect of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz’s conflicting perspectives about their conversation with the king and queen?