1- Definitions:
a) The frustration of not achieving a goal and antagonistic and annoying actions like offenses, gashes and blusters are definitely led to anger.
b) Unlike other aversive emotions such as grief and fear, which include suppression and retreat, Dagleish identifies anger as a negative emotion, but includes a positive approach.
c) Cox and Harrison simply define the structure of anger as a multidimensional one with different influential and cognitive dimensions and various psychological elements that take part in anger process.
2- Origins and Emergence :
a) The 20th century marked a change in many aspects of people’s life. In politics and social life, people were enfranchised, gaining legal and political rights. In literature, …show more content…
The title of the play is absolutely parallel to life in a box. The title is highly abundant because it related to the motif of a chess game that is about to terminate.
7- Origins: Due to World War the Second, the humanity is devoured and everything lost its prominence. The origin of the play is made up of Beckett’s confrontation with such circumstances.
8- Genre: Samuel Beckett considers that modern man is spiritually detached. This is so explicit in his play Endgame, where he utilizes some concepts of existentialism. Therefore, this is the genre of the play, which is expressed through doomed, alienated and meaningless notions.
9- Setting: In Endgame, the setting is comprised of an abstract chamber in bleak and gloomy light, two unpretentious windows on the back wall, one overlooks the ocean and the other the land, a door to the right through which Clov can get in and leave the kitchen, a portrait hanging with its face to the wall, two ashbins to the left including the motionless Nagg and Nell in the center, and a wheelchair in which Hamm is paralytic in. Time is referring to the progressive decline of the …show more content…
This movement appears clearly in the 20th century under the name of “Angry Young Men”. As result of this movement and the theatre of absurd, the 20th century reflects a social revolution and changing in Britain. For instance, in politics, women began to vote and felt that they are equal to men in rights. The right of voting was giving to women over 30 in 1918 and women over 21 in 1928. This social change was accompanied by campaigns of militant suffragettes. The first woman, who was elected to parliament, was Nancy Astor. In poetry, the modernist writer refused remains of romantic sentimentalism and introducing new innovations like individuality. According to novel, novelists choose between traditional literary models and experimental. For drama, it inspires its characters from the middle class, which means that it deals with social problems like Doll’s house. Therefore, new trend spreads throughout the European continent, especially Britain which means that social drama ultimately changed the world. While England was trying to introduce new systems, new kind of literature manifested, which is called “Angry Young Men”. This movement expresses its discontent with life in Britain like the play Look Back in Anger by John Osborne. The uncertainty and terror surrounding World War the Second make critics recognize the devolution of traditions, moral and political