Thursday 29 November 2018

Interpretation challenge of Samuel Beckett's Play -Breathe

 we watched 'Breathe' the shortest play by Samuel Beckett, to understand the concept of the theatre of absurd. When we watched these types of absurd play we feel that nothing happens on the stage but there is always something behind nothing. Nothing happens without purpose. Even our existence on the earth is for some reason.




The nothingness remains at the center of the play. The cry and the sigh show that though we achieve so many things in our life at the end of our life we have to leave everything by our death. The ultimate goal of our life is only death. And so there is no difference whether you have achieved anything or not. We can say so many things with this play. While watching the play we also feel nausea kind of feelings. If we compare the beginning and the end of the play, when we start watching the play we listen a cry which represents the child. The sigh may be the grown up person and again the cry means gain the child. So if we connect these dots then we can say that this cycle of life and death will go on consecutively.

The play is all about nothingness of life, meaninglessness of life. Life is nothing but waste of time. Life is garbage...







 Modern Interpretation of Breath:
It shows the sun rising at the beginning and  sun set at the end of the play. Here, we can consider SUN RISING as HOPE and SUN SET as FAILURE. Here, we can hear sound of breath. Breath as symbol for humans lives which existance with 'HOPE' and 'FAILURE'. It shows the situation in modern time. 
Here we can take example of 'Waiting for Godot '.  Throughout the play Vladimir and Estragon wait of Godot, but at the end Godot not come.
Thus, the play 'Breath' by Samuel Beckett is the postmodernist writing which can be interpreat in many
way which I interpreat. All videos concern with cyclical nature of humans lives in the world

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