The best statement to reflect the literary period of Samuel Beckett is that in existence there is a pointless cycle. There is a long line that goes from the day that we were born to the day that we die. in the endgame, there like a merry go round coming from the pit, so life is like that cycle that is regenerating continually while a man is dying a newborn baby is coming to this world. so the cycle is repeated over and over again.
Because they don't want anyone to stray from the 'laws' that they have set. They have this utopia, and they don't want anyone to leave that. They want everyone to live the same way. Even though they are missing so much in their lives.
Anansi is the trickster in the book