“Caught in the Crossfire: Beckett’s Weeping Innocents and the Pain of Existence.”
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Eugene Ngezem
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Placed on a dusty road to nowhere and on a barren landscape, Samuel Beckett’s disorientate characters are caught in the cross-fire of anguish, and their wailings and attempts to escape only plunge down into the abyss of more excruciating pain and loss. Via characters, who are essentially shadows of walking corpses, Beckett, as evident in both matter and content, seems to hold modern humanity responsible for the dysfunctional modern world, which victimizes his helpless and despondent characters. Beckett’s characters or say tramps undergo both physical and psychological collapse as they confront agonizing conditions of existence in their hostile, arduous world of empty or diminishing possibilities.