Body and Space Evasion in the Theatre of Samuel Backett

Authors

Nootchanart Smathakarnagsorakij

Publication Date

2011-01-01

Abstract

Stuck between an impossible life and an inadmissible death and condemned to suffer from their empty existence, the wretched protagonists in Samuel Beckett's theatrical work desperately seek an escape in a symbolic and metaphorical body and space: a foetus in the uterus. Aroused by the nostalgia for mother, they constantly strive to create or live in the conditions analogous to those in the womb: the world absent of excitements, dark, and protective where their idle bodies can curl up serenely in the intermediary state of non-life and non-death until the desired end actually comes.

First Page

39

Last Page

62

Recommended Citation

Smathakarnagsorakij, Nootchanart (2011) "Body and Space Evasion in the Theatre of Samuel Backett," Manusya, Journal of Humanities: Vol. 14: No. 1, Article 3.
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/manusya/vol14/iss1/3