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This review is from: Samuel Beckett's Endgame (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (Library Binding)
Review of Play: Endgame Premiere: 1957 By: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989) The play "Endgame" is set in a single room with only four characters. The two main characters (Hamm and Clov) bicker throughout. The other two characters (Nagg and Nell) are in trash cans in the room and someone needs to life the lids to talk to them. Nagg and Nell are Hamm's parents. Outside of the room it seems that either the earth is uninhabited or else the outside world is entirely void. Hamm (Hamlet?) is decrepit, blind and immobile. Hamm depends on Clov (Clown?) for everything. Clov serves him food and medicine and gives him warm covers. Clov serves Hamm grudgingly. Although Nagg and Nell (Nag and Hell?) are Hamm's parents he shows no warmth or feeling toward them. They show no humanity or awareness of the world. There is no interaction between parent and child that would indicate human feeling. Nagg and Nell (Nag and Hell?) are just stage props to reinforce the premise that time stopped passing and the universe is a void. Nell's death invokes no sense of loss making the audience wonder if she was really alive at the start or was her trash can actually an urn for her ashes. Perhaps the voices of Nagg and Nell are faded memories. Waiting for Godot Krapp's Last Tape I completely enjoyed and highly recommend this book.
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