Brief Plot Overview
My story will be split into two sections, following three interwoven, though not necessarily chronological, plots. The first section commences with an indistinguishable person searching their cluttered apartment for an undefined object. Eventually this object is revealed to be a wig, as the person recently experienced total and unexplained hair loss. No remnants of hair were found in their apartment. As the person is generally reclusive and unsociable (though, notably, not incapable of social interaction), the wig is necessary to maintain their longstanding relationship with their hairdresser – the only person with whom they routinely interact. It is ultimately discovered they have not yet purchased a wig, and are merely …show more content…
Once wig is purchased, and we follow their daily routines, discovering how, exactly, they pass time, building up to them making the hair appointment. Their anxiety over whether their hairdresser will notice the wig, accept them, or still even exist thrusts the story to its conclusion, as they arrive at the hair …show more content…
In disregarding, and arguably transcending, many of the novel’s comforts and seemingly essential characteristics, Beckett frequently presented a premise and its immediate contradiction. As Robbe-Grillet (1957, p.53) aptly observes, “Even in Beckett, there is no lack of events, but these events are constantly in the process of contesting themselves, jeopardizing themselves, destroying themselves, so that the same sentence may contain an observation and its immediate negation.” I aspire to a similar concept – a story which simultaneously comprises, or at least alludes to, an explicit narrative, that narrative’s antithesis, and a broad spectrum in-between. A story which is neither confined to, nor restricted by, itself. This is my broad thematic goal, along with smaller themes pertaining to emotional permanence and feeling beholden to time (the story will hence treat time fluidly). Franz Kafka’s work, and especially his propensity to delve into extraordinary circumstances without exploring their cause, or later offering explanation, is also an appealing and deeply influential
My story will be split into two sections, following three interwoven, though not necessarily chronological, plots. The first section commences with an indistinguishable person searching their cluttered apartment for an undefined object. Eventually this object is revealed to be a wig, as the person recently experienced total and unexplained hair loss. No remnants of hair were found in their apartment. As the person is generally reclusive and unsociable (though, notably, not incapable of social interaction), the wig is necessary to maintain their longstanding relationship with their hairdresser – the only person with whom they routinely interact. It is ultimately discovered they have not yet purchased a wig, and are merely …show more content…
Once wig is purchased, and we follow their daily routines, discovering how, exactly, they pass time, building up to them making the hair appointment. Their anxiety over whether their hairdresser will notice the wig, accept them, or still even exist thrusts the story to its conclusion, as they arrive at the hair …show more content…
In disregarding, and arguably transcending, many of the novel’s comforts and seemingly essential characteristics, Beckett frequently presented a premise and its immediate contradiction. As Robbe-Grillet (1957, p.53) aptly observes, “Even in Beckett, there is no lack of events, but these events are constantly in the process of contesting themselves, jeopardizing themselves, destroying themselves, so that the same sentence may contain an observation and its immediate negation.” I aspire to a similar concept – a story which simultaneously comprises, or at least alludes to, an explicit narrative, that narrative’s antithesis, and a broad spectrum in-between. A story which is neither confined to, nor restricted by, itself. This is my broad thematic goal, along with smaller themes pertaining to emotional permanence and feeling beholden to time (the story will hence treat time fluidly). Franz Kafka’s work, and especially his propensity to delve into extraordinary circumstances without exploring their cause, or later offering explanation, is also an appealing and deeply influential