In the play Endgame, written by Samuel Beckett, there is a particular passage that involves two harmless characters, Nagg and Nell, giggling over their sons’ sadness and woeful state of mind. When reproducing the dialogue between these two parents, this passage conveys how these two laugh and make fun of their own son while he sinks into depression. In addition, Nell, the mother, oddly compares suffering with happiness and positive feelings. Because, in her own way it is allowing her to escape the troubles and suffering that she experiences everyday while being trapped in a foul trash can. Although, at the same time she realizes that this recurring feeling of desolation will never exit her life and it only becomes a part of her not so humorous daily routine. Therefore, illustrating that to surpass unhappiness and frustrated events, one must laugh to attempt to bring happiness upon their life. But, in the end, the happiness goes by because the repetitive feeling of misery and despair is too substantial to disregard.
Towards the beginning of this passage, the main character, Hamm, exclaims …show more content…
First, she lashes at Nagg saying, “One mustn’t laugh at those things, Nagg. Why must you always laugh at them?” (26). After Nagg tells her to quiet down she says in a quiet voice, “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that” (26). What Nell says in this part of the passage is similar to an oxymoron or paradox because society often times does not find unhappiness to be comical or humorous. It is the exact opposite in most cases. Nell has this opinion because of the countless years she has spent living in a garbage can and not receiving near enough necessities that humans need to stay healthy. She grasps onto anything that will bring happiness upon her wretched world. In this case, it is the agony of her son that grants her
Towards the beginning of this passage, the main character, Hamm, exclaims …show more content…
First, she lashes at Nagg saying, “One mustn’t laugh at those things, Nagg. Why must you always laugh at them?” (26). After Nagg tells her to quiet down she says in a quiet voice, “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that” (26). What Nell says in this part of the passage is similar to an oxymoron or paradox because society often times does not find unhappiness to be comical or humorous. It is the exact opposite in most cases. Nell has this opinion because of the countless years she has spent living in a garbage can and not receiving near enough necessities that humans need to stay healthy. She grasps onto anything that will bring happiness upon her wretched world. In this case, it is the agony of her son that grants her