"Endgame"

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This paper examines the play, "Endgame", by Samuel Beckett, which is about the pain and struggle that human relationships endure when founded in pain and human suffering. It looks at how the use of his play to illustrate the decay of one era and the fight against another is not unusual in the literary world and how the underlying theme that brings this play to greatness is the use of Hamm's decaying body, while his mind stays presumably intact and intellectually sound. It also demonstrates how the pain and anger that accompanies such situations illustrates the pain of moving between Modernism and Romanticism.

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"The character of Hamm provides many examples of the fight against Romanticism by Modernism. Hamm shows anger and disgust for the two which is the way of Modernism against Romanticism. If one has a difficult time exploring the theme of Modernism as it is illustrated through the relationship between Hamm and Nagg and Nell one can view it as a teen fighting against a parent. As teens grow older and start becoming young adults of their own they naturally tend to fight against the parents who have raised them. This path is taken for the purpose of the teen eventually emerging as a self propelled and capable adult who still uses certain elements that the parents have provided along the way."

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