Endgame / Act Without Words (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Hamm: Add a description of this character.
• Clov
• Nagg
• Nell
• Cloy

Quotes edit see section history

• “Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. (Pause.) I can't be punished anymore.”

  Clov

• “All life long the same questions, the same answers.”

  Clov

• “We're getting on.”

  Hamm

• “You weep, and weep, for nothing, so as not to laugh, and little by little... you begin to grieve.”

  Hamm

• “Use your head, can't you, use your head, you're on earth, there's no cure for that!”

  Hamm

• “The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

  Hamm

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• HAMM: Your light dying! Listen to that! Well, it can die just as well here, your light. Take a look at me and then come back and tell me what you think of your light.

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• Imagine if a rational being came back to earth, wouldn't he be liable to get ideas into his head if he observed us long enough. (Voice of rational being.) Ah, good, now I see what it is, yes, now I understand what they're at!

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• But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals! CLOV: Then she hasn't forgotten us.

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• HAMM (very perturbed): But humanity might start from there all over again! Catch him, for the love of God!

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• CLOV (harshly): When old Mother Pegg asked you for oil for her lamp and you told her to get out to hell, you knew what was happening then, no? (Pause.) You know what she died of, Mother Pegg? Of darkness.

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• I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

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First Sentence edit see section history

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Cyclical, Repetitive Nature of Beginnings and Endings: Describe this theme.
• Emptiness and Loneliness
• Light and Darkness

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Samuel Beckett (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 842.912

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Classics › Beckett, Samuel
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Drama › Playwrights, A-Z › ( B ) › Beckett, Samuel
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( B ) › Beckett, Samuel
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Drama › Continental European
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Drama › British & Irish