期刊名称：Universitatea "Ovidius" Constanta. Analele Stiintifice. Seria Filologie
印刷版ISSN：1224-1768
出版年度：2014
卷号：XXV
期号：1
页码：116-125
出版社：Ovidius University Press
摘要：The aim of this paper is to show that the key image in Beckett's play Endgame may be considered to be a decay of the body and a parallel shrinking of the entire universe. There are no more bike wheels, pap, nature, sugar-plums, tides, navigators, rugs, pain killers or coffins. The absence of the last item points to an image of a landscape of unburied corpses, Hamm remembering Mother Pegg's fear of not being buried. Characters are imprisoned in their bodies, houses and minds and there is a general state of paralysis of the body, leading to death or madness. Though the imagery in the play may be well related to the context in which it was written, i.e. the world in the aftermath of WWII, we would also like to draw attention to a more Irish background, i.e. the devastation of Ireland during the Great Famine in mid-19 th century, the immediate physical consequences and the long-term trauma of the Irish psyche.
