Endgame written by Samuel Beckett is a humorous play that at the same time confers the question of the meaning of life; does love, family, or belief give the meaning of living? is a controversial topic to be discuss as a theme of this play. The main character---Hamm, is a man with a wheel chair that is blind; he believes that his life is terribly boring and no one is suffering more than he is. Another main character--Clov, is Hamm's servant that have been taking care and staying with Hamm since young. Hamm's mother Nell is a caring character I believe, towards Hamm, and Nagg, is the father of Hamm in the play. The plot is basically surrounding conversations between Hamm and Clov. The theater style is more likely to be black humor or to leave a question for the audience to interpret about the meaning to living as Hamm suggests question that people don't normally thinks about in their life daily. Through researches online, it said that the staging is simple and starting with a gray colored lighting effects, it might be trying to create a mope mood for the play.
However, the author Samuel Beckett, is an Irish writer, poet and of course a playwright. His style is often tragicomic and doubting human existence through this humor way of writing his works. He also won a noble prize in literature in 1969, considering one of the most famous modernist writers in the 20th century. He speaks and writes in both French and English, too.
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