Endgame by Beckett
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Beckett's Endgame is a play, which belongs to the Theater of the Absurd. In contrast to the conventional playwrights, Beckett rejects realism's structure of causality. Instead, he promotes a different worldview. One of the most important differences of Endgame from the conventional plays is the use of cyclical time rather than of the ordinary, linear historical time. This has as a consequence the constant repetition of the actions of the characters, who present themselves as automata, mechanical puppets.
Endgame is a play with no beginning and end, no climax and denouement. It has a cyclical structure and time as a continuum of significant moments disappears. In this cyclical time, Hamm and Clov appear to be waiting for something, even if this is an end. However, this end is not coming. Thus, the characters have to find a way of passing their time...