Read this excerpt from Endgame by Samuel Beckett: HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! Yo
u and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! HAMM: I wonder. (Pause.) Imagine if a rational being came back to earth, wouldn't he be liable to get ideas into his head if he observed us long enough. (Voice of rational being.) Ah, good, now I see what it is, yes, now I understand what they're at! (Clov starts, drops the telescope and begins to scratch his belly with both hands. Normal voice.) And without going so far as that, we ourselves... (with emotion) ...we ourselves... at certain moments... (Vehemently.) To think perhaps it won't all have been for nothing! Which sentence most accurately describes the implied conflict in the passage?A.Clov is more interested in stargazing than in listening to Hamm speak. B Hamm wants to talk about deep ideas but Clov is too unintelligent C. Clov is highly rational but Hamm is incapable of understanding him D. Hamm hopes life may have some meaning but he knows it doesn't.
The answer is letter D) Hamm hopes life may have some meaning but knows it doesn't.
The play <em>Endgame </em>by Samuel Beckett is a theater of absurd. The plot revolves around old people who are waiting to die, who believe existence is meaningless, and who fear reincarnation. The characters' codependence is palpable. They need each other's company for they fear the pain of being alone whilst, at the same time, they find each other's company painful. They are aware that death should come to all and, while they hope for it, they also fear it.
