Educational: Samuel Beckett's " Krapp's Last Tape",and "we"

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Samuel Beckett's " Krapp's Last Tape",and "we"

Samuel Beckett is known for his drama ,bearing the theme of absurdity.During ancient period , the absurdity was not given priority rather was ignored complaining its basic ingredient i.e the vagueness or meaninglessness of human life.This sort of explanation from one point of view carries reality as well because the negative thinking could bring frustration but from another view this could be falsified.There is opposition in each an every object or thinking.This world is distinguished from the opposition as a whole.If there is  good there is bad,evil-social, dark-light,black-white.If one is ignored both seems meaningless.so to find out meaning both should be studied in similar form.In the context to understand the meaninglessness of life there should be the study of  meaninglessness and should not be ignored anywhere.if it is ignored we miss important part of our study or we understand half of the portion only.  

In dealing with Krapp's Last Tape we find how beautifully the play wright Samuel Beckett has depicted the life of normal human being.The old Krapp is not extraordinary character rather he is one of us.He is general human beings who had strong desire of youth , finding the better future as normal as we do now at this age.He performed all his activities as the time demanded but now at this old age he is not happy what he had done.The knowledge has been planted that only doing normal things and activities cannot make sense of our existence.When we study the drama from our perspective for the first time we generally claim Krapp to be   insane.I find our fault in dealing with the right here.what he seems is not so important here but what he means is important.The character is nor lamenting upon his powerful passed youth but he is making us aware of our future.But unfortunately not only a single person but all the world is in the same path of the character ,who is ignorant about the present and as a consequence is to fall upon the same fate of Krapp.

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