Repetition and Self -Interpretation: Analytical Study for a Selection of Beckett's Early Novels and Dramas

Abstract

               As an expressionist, many humane portraits to reflect immobility, confinement, helplessness and the confusion of life and death are repetitively introduced in Beckett's early novels as well as in his drama. Characters as Watt, Murphy, Malone and Molloy have different names yet they could be namable as Beckett or stay unnamable as any anonymous. They live the same dilemma, face the same doom seek the same end. They are physically impaired. Their infirmity embodies the writer's infirmity and the whole contemporary generation to understand the world. Through them, he tries to imitate the self-conflict and determines the identity of the new man produced by the wars as being one of its victims. In his works, he depicts the body as a cell of soul, life as a tomb of ambitions and death as freedom though it is a fate and not a choice. Metaphorically, acknowledging this truth makes of death as a self- revolution, a release of pains and an invitation to a new creation and this is what his moral message all about not only addressing English or French people but all humanity     Repetition of themes, images, characters, words, and plots of all kinds in their similarity and opposition come cross in Beckett's writings to be a philosophy rather than a mere theme or technique. This study focuses on a selection of the writer's early novels with reference to some of his drama. The aim is to show how he has applied repetition of similarity and opposition as a theme, technique and philosophy to interpret the self confronting the most critical times of war and its deteriorations.