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choose 5 PAGES from the play ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett read read read look up anything you don’t know then start noticing and making observations, and write them all down. is the author using SYMBOLS, MAGICAL REALISM, FORESHADOWING, ALLUSIONS, BREAKING THE FORTH WALL, SIMILES, METAPHORS, METONYMY, RHYME, HYPERBOLE, CONTRADICTION, PARADOX,IRONY, PERSONIFICATION, IMAGERY, DESCRIPTION, ONOMATOPOEIA? or anything else? what are the characters doing, saying to each other ? how are they positioned?what are they feeling? how are they talking, according to stage directions? notice as much as you can. your next step is start INTERPRETING:that is, take your observations and start forming your own ideas about what these observations mean. how is the author using these above figures and why? to what effect? why are the characters saying what they are saying, or doing what they are doing? how does all this relate to the larger context of the play?
I dont want to see any easy ideas or interpretations- what i am challenging you to do with this assignment is to understand as deeply as you can, and out of that understanding to generate sophisticated and subtle ideas.
so basically, I am asking for a more in-depth, response paper which is focusing intensely on analyzing 5 PAGES of your play. Include LOTS OF QUOTES: quote, give interpretation, then explain why the quote helps support your interpretation. NO SUMMARIZING. I know what happens in the play. No general comments about what it means to be human and write plays, get specific and get deep.
If you need inspiration or a model look at some of Camille Paglia’s essays- they are full of detail, they observe the text very closely and they think hard about what the text means. i want you to do the same with your 5 chosen pages of the play.
Here is an example, which is on page 97, second paragraph of the first page of the Emily Dickinson essay:
” ‘Because I could not stop for Death — / He kindly stopped for me’: the poem begins with the singsong rhythms and perfect rhyme that Dickinson uses to signal a character’s childlike confidence in life’s benevolence [goodness], sometimes symbolized by imagery of springtime beauty. We too are sucked into a receptive mood by the pat social formulas. The trusting speaker fails to see that her suitor’s good manners (“Civility” 8) are a ruse. He is a seducer and a cad, a trickster and a confidence man– a common archetype in nineteenth-century American folklore and literature. A pleasant ride in the country will end in horror.”
Here you see Paglia both making observations about the poem (“singsong rhythms”; “trusting speaker”; “her suitor’s good manners”) and drawing conclusions about those observations: she writes, “We too are sucked in”, meaning that through Dickinson’s tone, the reader also is made to feel trusting and innocent. In other words, we will experience the shock of cold death, as the lady in the poem does. Paglia also describes death as “a seducer and a cad, a trickster and a confidence man”, which all imply an interpretation of Death in the poem as a character who wants to deceive: appearances are not what they seem.
In other words, you have two tasks for Essay 2: to very carefully observe what is happening in the text, and then to suggest interpretations of what is happening
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