Endgame

endgame The Hegelian definition of tragedy is specify as healthy intentions will collide in a finite area where those good intentions will develop a tragedy. Becketts Endgame can be included within the definition of the Hegelian tragedy. twain main characters in the bout had good intentions, but were formed done obligations. These good intentions through obligation made the novel suitable to be a Hegelian tragedy. The characters good intentions were shown throughout the play. Both Hamm and clove depended on each separate to survive. They were both afraid to leave each separate and be left alone.Clove admits that Hamm became a father figure to him and he in one case loved him but not anymore, but he has nowhere else to go. as well Hamm points out that Clove stays with him out of compassion. Nagg depends mostly on his wife, Nell. He would only wake up from his garbage bins to tell the same taradiddle to his wife and attempt to give her a kiss. However Nell dependency is the p ast. Nell in the play represents life where in this type of story it is unlikely to see. The book and the photographic film made Hamms parents look more childlike and deary like.The play had several themes, which consist of emptiness, loneliness, and the overall nature of beginnings and endings in other words- life and death. The repeated lines such as finished and nonentity represents Hamm, the protagonist, absentminded to welcome in death but he is too panic to finish the endgame. The script made me think the characters were trapped in this small dark hole full of nothingness, which emphasizes the emptiness of the play. However, in the film there was light coming from the two windows. Outside the windows, there is zero nature, which also help oneselfs to illustrate the emptiness of play.Another example of emptiness existence delineated in the play, is that there was absolutely no sound coming from the foreign or inside in the film, except for the characters voices. The p utting to death of the rat and flea demonstrates the beginnings and endings of the play. Hamm told Clove to kill the flea because he is afraid of the rebirth of humanity. The correspond directions in the script represent Hamm and Cloves fear of escaping. In the film, when Hamm directs Clove to move him back to the center of the room after being pushed around the room, is one example of Hamms fear of escaping the room.Another example is Cloves failed attempts to leave the room to go to the kitchen. In the film, it showed Cloves many hesitations before leaving the room. Even though the characters had good intentions to help each other survive the endgame, the tragic flaws were overpowering. Nagg mentions in the play that since birth Hamm has always being afraid of loneliness. Clove finally had endurance to escape but eventually returns because he didnt have abundant courage to end one thing and start a modern beginning somewhere else. Hegelian tragedy suited the Endgame because th e characters good intentions collided in this finite dark hole.