AN ABSURDIST PLAY: SAMUEL BECKETT’S ENDGAME

Year 2016, Volume: 6 Issue: 13, 0 - 0, 31.01.2016

Ayşenur İplikçi Özden

Abstract

This study aims to examine Samuel Beckett’s Endgame as an absurdist play considering certain aspects and characteristics of this kind of drama such as silence, pause, repetitions, no story or plot, no recognizable or definable decor, unconventional dialogue and interest in global and universal problems rather than contemporary issues. With the changing state of the world and especially due to the destructive effects of the Second World War, feelings of meaninglessness and nothingness spread over the world sending forth despair and disenchantment with the accepted values. Beckett, reflecting these issues in his plays, can be considered to be a prominent absurdist playwright and his play Endgame is a typical absurdist play which depicts the characteristics of this kind of drama and shows the emptiness and alienation in the modern world. In this study, by examining this play, it is depicted that with the absurdist drama the alienated modern world is successfully put on the stage and the familiar well-made plays have begun to be replaced by these typical examples of absurdist drama.

Keywords

Absürt Drama, anlamsızlık; sessizlik; ara; tekrar; hiçlik

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