Samuel Beckett, in full Samuel Barclay Beckett, (born April 13?, 1906, Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland—died December 22, 1989, Paris, France), author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot).
" BREATH "
Breath is a notably short stage work by Samuel Beckett. An altered version was first included in " Kenneth Tynan's revue oh ! Calcutta at the Eden Theatre in New York city on June 16, 1969.
The scriptof the Play
CURTAIN Up
1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.
2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.
3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds.
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♧ Critical analysis of the play " Breath. " :-
The Rubbish is a metaphor for life
Breath itself opens with the sounds of birth, followed by breathing while the lights go up and down, and ends with another cry. Given the nature of the revue of which it is a part, one may interpret this as a metaphor for birth, life and death - the results of sex, and a comment on the animalistic impulses that drives it.
Beckett himself essentially confirmed this in his description of the work:
"My contribution to the Tynan circus is a forty second piece entitled BREATH … It is simply light coming up and going down on a stage littered with miscellaneous unidentifiable muck, sychronised with sound of breath, once in and out, the whole (ha!) begun and ended by the same tiny vagitus-rattle. I realized when too late to repent that it is not unconnected with
On entre, on crie
Et c’est la vie.
On crie, on sort,
Et c‘est la mort.
If this fails to titillate I hand in my aprob
- Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson
Breath means both life and death. In life it consider as the symbol of action. Sometimes person so much habituated of breathing. Person doesn't realise its actually importance for live life. The play reflects the reality of human life. It reflects meaningless and Existentialism. Meaningless in the sense that people has no any purpose of living life. We live life just waiting for death. Breathing help us to reach ultimately death. So Breath is the symbol of Bridge between life and death.
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