In Samuel Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape, an older man celebrates his sixty-ninth birthday in his office, but listens to past recordings of himself from thirty years ago. Beckett emphasizes eloquently described movements and symbolism of everyday objects to reveal how resolutions from the past tends to turn into hypocrisy in the future. Beckett uses the movements of Krapp to describe the tiredness and resentment that he has for himself, yet they are broken promises he commits. He writes, “ Have just eaten I regret to say three bananas and only with difficulty refrained from a fourth.” By Krapp listening to that from himself from when he was younger, he realizes that he still sticks to the same old habits now with his present
