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Author: Omar Mustafa Mustafa Ahmed
English Department, College of Arts and Letters, Cihan University-Erbil
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24086/cuesj.si.2018.n1a7
Abstract
Beckett’s perception of the isogenic equation between suffering and existence forms the core of his plays and Novels. In all most all his works, Beckett presents Man in an inevitable and determined quest of a meaning in existence pursuit of some significance for himself and the world he inhabits. Both Not I and That Time exhaust Man’s rational efforts to explore reality and seek the meaning of existence and the Self. The characters in these two plays are septuagenarians and they try understand the meaning of existence but, they fail to do so. They portray the limitation of their minds in the process of understanding, and the collapse of human effort to shape a meaning out of the chaos of existence. This paper is an attempt to show that Beckett peels off the layers that surround septuagenarian’s life and tries to show their unbearable suffering. Both Plays are crushing answer to existential agony and suffering of any human at their age.
Keywords: Septuagenarians, Suffering, The Beckettians, Existence.
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