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"Endgame" (Samuel Beckett)
Analytical Essay # 19568
"Endgame" (Samuel Beckett)
Examines the use of the four characters to portray post-modern drama and reality.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages) |
7 sources |
1992
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"THE "NEW SENSIBILITY" OF "ENDGAME"Samuel Beckett's Endgame has been described as a drama that presents "the death of the stock props of Western civilization---family cohesion, filial, parental, and connubial love, faith in God, artistic appreciation and creation." It is the THESIS of this paper that Beckett is able to use only four characters--- Hamm, Nagg, Nell, and Clov--- to portray the fact that modern theater has to address itself to a new sensibility that today might be termed "postmodern." Beckett gets his title from the final stage of chess, when only a few pieces remain on the board and checkmate is near. This is the "endgame," and Beckett's play demonstrates that the mechanics of the theater (as they mirror "life") are near the checkmate stage."
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"Endgame" (Samuel Beckett) (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Endgame-Samuel-Beckett/19568
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""Endgame" (Samuel Beckett)" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Endgame-Samuel-Beckett/19568>
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