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- W1595741599 abstract "Objects have always played a fundamental role in our lives, as they passively keep us company and tacitly impart their innate quietude. However, what happens when objects become such a powerful presence that, as a result, they dominate characters’ lives? Put differently, what happens when objects overwhelm people with their potent (that is literally, always there) presence?Into the silence of the objects is a place where we become aware of our nothingness, identity crisis, language anxiety, and stasis. In Samuel Beckett’s plays Endgame (1958)and Act without Words I (1956), the playwright gradually captures the uselessness of the main characters’ lives and the transformation of their minds and bodies into a collection of archived objects. Without interacting with other people and by self-incarcerating themselves, these Beckettian characters forget what is to be human and become “not-a-thing, nothing.” There may be a disturbing fact in this realization, and, arguably, even an unfortunate alliteration; nonetheless, what is even more shocking is that these characters are paradigmatic for what it means to have stepped into premature ontological and existential annihilation. They are now abandoned objects among other objects, an ineffectualcollection of sorts.Based on these arguments, this essay shows Beckett’s tremendous influence toward the development of the theory of de-carnalizing and/or de-materializing of the people’s body and mind, culminating to the technological revolution when we want to be stacked up within uncountable computer files. The main argument proposes a reflection on how much we endanger our emotional and social sophistication by playing this digital, tricky “game.” Keywords: silence, anxiety, self-annihilation, identity, destruction" @default.
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- W1595741599 title "Into the silence of the objects : analyzing Samuel Beckett’s nothingness" @default.
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