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Saturday, February 9, 2019

Pitiful Human Condition Exposed in Endgame, Dumbwaiter, and The Horse D

The short Human Condition Exposed in Endgame, Dumbwaiter, and The sawbuck Dealers Daughter The terzetto stories, The Endgame (Beckett), The Dumbwaiter (Pinter), and The Horse Dealers Daughter (Lawrence) all deal with the themes of repression, repetition, and breakdowns in communication. The stories show us the subjectivity of language and exemplify the labyrinthineities of the human condition. Samuel Beckett arrived on earth in Ireland on Good Friday, April 13, 1906. He then worn out(p) the rest of his life wanting to be somewhere else. Becketts life was nonpareil of silence, solitude, and depression. He felt he did not belong in this creation and he was disenchanted with societal convention and the hum-drum existence that was everyday life. He lived in Paris for awhile and became good fri hold backs with James Joyce, another Irish writer disenchanted with conventional ways of life. Becketts works reflect his complex views of language, silence, and the ineffec tual capacity of both to convey human thought. In Becketts ideology, speech is useless and he creates a mythical universe peopled by lonely creatures who struggle vainly to express the inexpressible. His characters exist in a terrible dreamlike vacuum, overcome by an overwhelming sense of bafflement and grief, grotesquely attempting some form of communication, then crawling on, endlessly. Becketts short story, The Endgame, is rough four people in an underground room waiting for death. The end of the world has apparently happened and they have survived in what is presumed to be a flop shelter. Two of the characters live in trash cans. These two characters are the parents of our principal(prenominal) character, Hamm, who is himself confined to a whe... ...he unconscious is the soul and all action should be from instinct. That is a scary thought Works Cited Beckett, Samuel. The Endgame, (online) http//samuel-beckett.net Pinter, Harold. The Dumb server, The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter, Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1965 Lawrence, D.H. The Horse Dealers Daughter, (online) Samuel Beckett, (online) http//www.imagi-nation.com/lunatic/clsc7.htm Harold Pinter, (online) http//www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc28.html Cliff Notes. Harold Pinter - The Dumb Waiter(online) Prentice Hall, (online) http//wps.prenhall.com/hss_guth_disclit_3/0,5308,342140-,00.html Nigel Harrison, Eastwood and D H Lawrence, (online) http//ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/nigel_h/dhl.htm Randall Albright, The Horse Dealers Daughter, (online) http//clik.to/rananim/

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