Metaphors of “Memory, “Silence” and “Waiting”- Gradual Corrosion of Self in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot And Endgame
Abstract
In the modern drams and novels there is a constant corrosion of self. He goes on to observe that the contemporary writers are “anti-humanist and anti-heroic, highly skeptical about man's inherent dignity.”( 81). The American playwrights projected him as a sorry product of social conditions. Thus, soulless robots, corrupt, people the expressionistic plays revealing the trend towards corrosion of self and dehumanization of the protagonists.
Keywords
Godot And Endgame; Corrosion of Self; Memory; Silence; Waiting
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