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1934Short storiesFollow life of one
character“ long sentences
furnished in an elegantly cluttered style” (King).
1954 Play 2 main characters One setting “A special virtue
attaches to plays which remind the drama of how much it can do without and still exist” (“Samuel Barclay Beckett”).
Death of a lobster “it’s a quick death, God help us all.
It is not” (Beckett 22).Disease
Facing a surgery “he was properly up against it this time”
(Beckett 162).
A hanging Possibility bough will break “ Don’t let’s do anything.
It’s safer” (Beckett 13).Changes
“ one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day” (Beckett 58).
Marriage “ her death came therefore as a
timely release” (Beckett 114). “they suddenly seemed to be
all dead… was the only sail in sight” (Beckett 175).
Point of View “ the beastly punctilio of women”
(Beckett 29).
Master and slave “I can’t bear it any longer…
he’s killing me” (Beckett 23).
Companions “ wonder if we wouldn’t have been
better off alone” (Beckett 35). “ Stay with me!... You let me go”
(Beckett 38).
"for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation“
(Nobel)
Why do the similarities matter?
Beckett, Samuel. More Pricks than Kicks. First Evergreen Edition. Brattleboro, Vermont: The Book Press, 1972. Print.
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. First Printing. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1954. Print.
King, John. "Reading for the Plotless: the difficult characters of Samuel Beckett's A Dream of Fair to Middling Women." Journal of Modern Literature 29.1 (2005): 133+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 25 Oct. 2010.<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA141998215&v=2.1&u=txshracd2598&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w>
"Samuel (Barclay) Beckett." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resource Center. Web. 25 Oct. 2010.http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CH1000006745&v=2.1&u=txshracd2598&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w