1. INTRODUCTION
This summer project will be an attempt to explore how Samuel Beckett’s characterization, setting and use of language in his play 'Endgame' reveal his tendency to employ some existentialist concepts such as despair, anxiety and thrownness on the way to authenticity.
Existentialism is a philosophical movement which focuses on individual existence rejecting the absolute reason. There are some reasons for the appearance of Existentialism in the history of thought. First of all, rational sciences could not prove that they were absolute, and thus, there was no absolute truth. Next, and the most important cause of the emergence of existentialism was that people had lost their belief in the existence of a divine being, that is God, …show more content…
Having adopted Sartre’s existentialism as the philosophical basis for his approach while creating his masterpieces, Beckett has become the founder of the Absurd Drama in British Literature. When his plays were first performed, people who were accustomed to the traditional theatre were hostile to his drama. However, particularly after World War II, their losses and fears have made them feel close to Beckett’s …show more content…
The claim, “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself is built upon this understanding. Such is the first principle of Existentialism,” says Sartre in Existentialism and Humanism. “What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards”. This quote claims that existence is a necessity to have essence. Sartre also states “He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of
This summer project will be an attempt to explore how Samuel Beckett’s characterization, setting and use of language in his play 'Endgame' reveal his tendency to employ some existentialist concepts such as despair, anxiety and thrownness on the way to authenticity.
Existentialism is a philosophical movement which focuses on individual existence rejecting the absolute reason. There are some reasons for the appearance of Existentialism in the history of thought. First of all, rational sciences could not prove that they were absolute, and thus, there was no absolute truth. Next, and the most important cause of the emergence of existentialism was that people had lost their belief in the existence of a divine being, that is God, …show more content…
Having adopted Sartre’s existentialism as the philosophical basis for his approach while creating his masterpieces, Beckett has become the founder of the Absurd Drama in British Literature. When his plays were first performed, people who were accustomed to the traditional theatre were hostile to his drama. However, particularly after World War II, their losses and fears have made them feel close to Beckett’s …show more content…
The claim, “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself is built upon this understanding. Such is the first principle of Existentialism,” says Sartre in Existentialism and Humanism. “What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards”. This quote claims that existence is a necessity to have essence. Sartre also states “He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of