ENGL 100 Study Guide - Tape (Play), Tragic Hero, Samuel Beckett

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: Laura Murray

Document Summary

Movies have the tools for better special effects. The author uses very beautiful language despite the sad play. Krapp is on the end of his tether. Listens to a previous tape before recording a new one. In this play, he is listening to a tape of himself when he"s 30. He counted the house he spent behind bars. When he records his new tape, he"s saying the same thing about his younger self, which was the same thing he said in his tape about an even younger self. Now sure how conscious he is when recollection ex. Memory has become compulsive repetition, and a ritual. Past events too present and too long lost. He connects to the dog when his mother is dying. Experiences it in a very abstract way ex. Scene on the boat is when him and this girl agree to break up. Symbol: can only see him in the shadow, not the light.