Wendy Beckett

presentation of Vladimir and Estragon’s characters prevent them two from leaving their stations. The two cannot leave as if they do the fact that they had gone only emphasizes the meaninglessness to their lives/. This can be seen in the lines “im going” (Beckett 4) said by estragon, despite this he does not move and thus it can be seen that the initial action is delayed by the hope that remains in the idea of Godot’s arrival. Yet this hope is what causes the two’s suffering to begin with. In…

Imagine a world where nobody lets you in, and you can’t feel connected despite your best efforts. This is what Holden Caulfield experiences in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden can’t find or reach the connections he wants because the other people in his life won’t let him in, and Holden pushes people away when he doesn’t feel safe from himself and the outside world. Throughout the book, Holden feels depressed. This is the result of isolation and alienation affecting Holden by not…

Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett) Waiting for Godot is a play about two men seeking for hope and salvation, Vladimir and Estragon. In a country road (Beckett,1) with a single tree on a hill, they patiently waited aimlessly for someone whose arrival is uncertain, Godot. This play falls under tragedy and comedy. Tragic, in a sense that they are hoping for a day that Godot might come but all that is happening to them are just repeated incidence of the past days, and comedy because there are…

encounters with mysterious characters and the prospects of finding purpose upon the arrival of a character they call Godot. The two men, Estragon and Vladimir, experience very little action or significant adventure in regards to the plot. Still, Beckett, regarded by some as a nihilist, manages to successfully demonstrate his philosophies even in the blandest of situations. In this two-act play, Beckett’s existentialist approach to life is reflected throughout the narrative. Furthermore, this…

In this paper I will discuss and go into great depth on Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins An Octoroon and the postdramatic theatre elements that are represented in both of them. Muller’s statement in Steegmans, After Postdramatic Theatre refers to a crisis of drama, which consists of the apparent inability to convey the complexity of the modern world. It’s that the problems of the present exceeds the representational capacity of the situational dramatic art. When we look at…

The novel’s major conflict is Edna and her conflicting beliefs against society regarding what a woman’s role should be, and it is shown quite early in the novel. An example of such would be Edna’s defiance of Leonce’s orders and her decision to remain outside in the cold back at Grand Isle (35). Edna’s growing resistance to society, especially in this scene, demonstrates the fierce soul she possesses. Her realization of the fact that her husband does not control her seems to spark within her at…

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, established in 1603 with Galileo as chair, is relocated to the City of London to provide a new education system to tackle the Square Mile’s lack of moral purpose. The Academy is a monochrome mass of libraries and ritualistic lecture spaces set in a landscape to induce physical and metaphysical wandering, meeting and reflection. Three environments are provided, inspired by the core natural elements of mountain for isolation and reflection, river for wandering…

Primacy meets the conventions set up by Martin Esslin about the theater of the absurd. The repetitive and meaningless dialogue, confusing situations along with unrealistic plots each of these present in the play represent the makeup that consist inside the absurd theater. There are also other multiple ways that make up this play as absurd. One aspect of the absurd is that the plays are only limited in their setting along with what they do, and so is Primacy, “All the plays are restricted in…

Finding names is not an easy task, but based on the articles, “The Weird Science of Naming New Products” by Neal Gabler and “How’d it Get That Name” by Bob Greene, it demonstrated interesting ways on how products were named. In Gabler’s article, “The Weird Science of Naming New Products”, he explains the random process in naming a virtual reality experience. They found a man named Shore who insisted in looking for ides off a science fiction website. He looks for words such as “Jumpdoor”, “Jaunte…

The one reading that stood out to me was Chapter 1, Abject from Hal Foster's book Bad New Day. It caught my attention not because he mentioned engaging writers and psychoanalysts; Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud or George Bastille, but being it is relevant to my work and what I am specifically attracted to as an artist. There are particular things Hal Foster brings up throughout Chapter 1. For example, he discusses and brings up the concept of the gaze and quotes Jacques Lacan, “the subject is…