A STUDY
by
NIDHI AGRAWAL
ISBN 978-81-7977-584-4
pp. : 100 + iv
Endgame is
an absurd play that depicts a family who seems to be the last survivors on the
earth. They are caged in a house with limited food and each member has special
physical deterioration. Outside their home everything is zero or corpsed. They
don’t want any hope or source of new life in their present situation. At few
points they yearn to run away from the situation but they are adamant in their
minds that they cannot escape from the
reality of their lives. The play seems to have circularity of thoughts,
actions, incidents and even dialogues. At no point the audience/reader will
feel that the play is progressing towards its end. Beckett has successfully
presented the image of declining world through this play.
The present book discusses all the major topics and
techniques that Beckett has applied to make his absurd play a successful stage
piece. Beckett wants his audience to search the answers of several questions
that he had left unanswered during the course of the play. Through this book,
different options for those questions are given that will definitely comfort
the puzzled mind of Beckett’s audience/reader. This book will inform how his
plays are different from traditional plays and why they are categorized under
absurd play. It will provide concrete definition and tradition of absurd
drama.It will make easy to understand Endgame in its complete entity.
Contents
Biography of Samuel Beckett
The Theatre of the Absurd: Definition and
Tradition
Samuel Beckett as a Dramatist
Characterization
Hamm
Clov
Nagg
Nell
Relationship of Hamm and
Clov
Marital life of Nagg and
Nell
Major Discussions
Declining Imagery of the
World
Fear of Regeneration
Cyclic Plot
Paralinguistic and
Non-linguistic Devices
Significance of Monologues
and Soliloquies
Effective Narration in
Dramatic Performance
Endgame and the Game of
Chess
Resemblance of Some
Incidents and Dialogues
to Literature and Bible (Allusion)
to Literature and Bible (Allusion)
Structure of the play
Summary of the Play
A Short Summary of the
Play
A Detailed Summary of the
Play
Important Word Meanings
Important Quotes from Endgame
Multiple Choice Questions
Bibliopgraphy
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