ENGL 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Samuel Beckett, Counterpoint
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The turning off of the light bulbs is the ironic counterpoint of that moment - after. Tyrone metaphorically sheds light on himself through the speech he then shows us that"s he is still the same person and hasn"t changed at all. There"s a level of irony in the play. Beckett"s plays are understood as comedies, they have jokes in them but not very funny jokes because they become images of darkness or suffering in the play. Winnie is so happy all the time in the play, she is a glass half full kind of person. Samuel beckett describes being an individual as being a succession of activities that give coherence to our daily life. Habits are part of who we are, but they risk becoming a kind of numbing to our environment; a form of self-protection from stimuli, and from experience.
