Lalji's Blog: " Breath" by Samuel Beckett

Hello Reader !

Welcome to my blog

Here I want to Share my view on following topics. So let's start our journey of learning together...

This task is given by Prof. Dilip Barad Sir for better understanding absurdity and ridiculousness into the Beckett's play. So here I put link of task which given by Prof. Dilip Barad sir,

https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/09/interpretation-challenge-breath.html

About Samuel Beckett:-

Samuel Barclay Beckett's journey of life between 13 April 1906 to 22 December 1989. He was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theater director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life and he wrote in both English and French languages.

Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd."

" Breath" ( Play ):-

Samuel Beckett was one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. He wrote only a thirty-second play-let for the stage which created many questions in readers mind.In that py he does not include any actors, text, characters but only play working surrounding the stage directions. "Breath" also has specific the focus and the only theatrical text considered in this study which demonstrated how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilization of the theater with the visual arts.Here the book attends to fifty breath-related artworks through including sculpture, painting, new media,sound art, performance art and contextualizes.Beckett's 'Breath' within the inter-medial and high-modernist discourse thereby contributing to the expanding field of inter-medial Beckett criticism.

The script of the play:-

CURTAIN UP:

1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.
2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.
3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds.

CURTAIN DOWN...

Trivial Images:-

First Part:-

When we read some information about Beckett play ' Breath' that it was only thirty second play, I examined with curiosity that How is it possible? Another question that It's 30 second play or 32nd play ? when I read this experimental play during that time also generated insignificant images into my mind that what's center of the play ? What's purpose of the write this play ? I think here in the play Beckett try to interpreted journey of life with example of rubbish things and also we connect with concept of 'Nihilism'.

Here I explained another way that Life is like rubbish thing and also dim-full light. I haven't choice of birth and died. Sometime our ( Rubbish ) beliefs stop to living own way. So that life is combination of Pain and joy like ' Dim Light '.

Second Part:-

When I read second part I heard the crying of a new born baby with something like light. So here I interpreted that When we born from womb of the mother at that time we faced suffering. So I can say that when our life started with struggle before may be come happiness. Moreover suffering also give strength and inner power or spiritual power but at the end this circle repeating often into the life.

Last Part:-

At the end I interpreted that we doing everything for the ability of n entity to interact with physical and mental reality but end of the we felt lacking. Mostly old person chose death rather than living.

First Video:-

During Watching this video or play, I notify one thing that There are clip moving with sound of the flow of breath out from human body for specific reason. Let me know that there are rubbish of like waste medicine and store of waste hospital which reflected happening bad thing certain place and worst life & wealth. Moreover I found symbol of 'swastika' which almost connected with Hitler and his rules. Another way If I want to saw so that It's represented sometimes our belief and religion leads towards rubbish things.

Second Video:-

In this video clip or movie I found so many types of fruits and vegetable. Fruit connected with richness, overindulgence and temptation and earthly pleasure. Another I can say It's connected with Myth. Sometime fruit ride us to luxurious life style which get during our life from nature but human being still never satisfied.

Last Video:-

In the last video working with background sound of child crying. So I think it's connected with generation the world and earth. Another interpretation is that human being born on the planet as a curse so that may be born as a human being on planet is rubbish thing. Moreover now I have another interpretation in my mind based on back ground sound. May be it's sound of happening rape and paining.

Thus, I want to say that Here Samuel Beckett has presented reality of life and world. He also explained absurdity through the play " Breath ".

Thank you...