Abstract :
Samuel Beckett’s theatre reveals the frightful diseases of the humanity. Beckett pictures modern man as a stranger full of illusions and deprived of his past, values, and hopes. His world of plays cannot be explained by reasoning because it is not a reasonable world, though familiar it is. In such a maddening universe, language has lost its function and man has become more vulnerable and thus dependant because of his isolation and fears. However, all his efforts are in vain since all remedies prove futile. Finally, all these result in unavoidable contradictions. Shocking the audience with the bare reality put on stage, the playwright exposes a pessimistic world view though this reality is the very thing the human beings experience in daily life. With this paper, I aim to reveal how masterfully Beckett’s plays, Endgame and Waiting for Godot, create an atmosphere in which contradictory elements go hand in hand.
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Contradiction , Endgame , Modern man , Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot
