endgame

Background info on Endgame due on blog (notes on author, plot, theme, theater style) -- be sure to check out the Endgame Topic and the materials located there.

Endgame is a term used in chess that is also known as the end. This theater is done by samuel Beckett and is the theater and the absurd. It expresses the meaning of life and causes you to ask questions such as why are we alive? What is the purpose. This play was influenced by death, fasism and world war two, in nazi Germany. It includes nursing two family members with illnesses at the end of there lives. This setting is in a concrete bunker or shelter. It is one room. It is after a world disaster and post-apocalyptic. The character is Hamm who is blind and cannot walk. He is confined to a chain and must be waited on to survive. The power is all about him. He frequently thinks about himself. Another character is clove who is an adopted son and servant under Hamm’s control, which adds to the power dynamics. She cannot sit and is in pain so she always has to keep moving. The last character is harms parents who are very old in trash bins. They have bad parent to sibling relationships.