Technology and Beckett’s Play, Krapp’s Last Tape Essay -- Krapp’s Last

Technology and Becketts Play, Krapps blend tapingbois seulbouffe brle crve seul comme devantles absents sont morts les prsents puentsors tes yeux dtourne-les sur les roseauxse taquinent-ils ou les aspas la peine il y a le ventet ltat de veille11 -Samuel Beckett, UntitledAs an avant-garde writer and a trend starter, Beckett was intensely in touch with his own time and its most significant realities, one of which being technological progress. In his play Krapps Last Tape, first performed in 1958, we meet yet another one of his spiritu all(prenominal)y crippled and disillusioned characters Krapp, an old recluse. Krapp is alone on the stage, seconded only by a tape player/recorder. As an embodiment of his memory, the machine completes Krapp and provides him with a link to his past, a grounding force which serves to give him a stronger presence. Ultimately, however, Krapp is no better eat up than analogous characters in Becketts work. What ever crumbs of hope the machine may bring, the core of the human problem is still the human condition, and that itself may not be changed by any form of insight into the past, however clear. A late evening in the future. starts Becketts script of Krapps Last Tape. One require not to imagine what this future is like if this indication is significant at all, its meaning does not exist has a stage direction to be interpreted creatively by the theatrical director. Rather, this indication concerns the whole mood and pace of the play this is to be the future that time or state after all that we may have planned or expected has passed. The world which Krapp inhabits is far away from our own his den might as well be on another p... ...t or indirect manner. In fact, one would be in the right to propound the contrary that the machine, in Becketts opinion, is a distraction from the important aspects of existence, a superficial solution to the real problems of life. Works Cited and Consulted Astro, Alan. Understanding Samuel Beckett. Columbia University of South Carolina, 1992.Beckett, Samuel. Collected Poems in English and French. New-York Grover Press, 1977.Beckett, Samuel. Endgame. New-York Grove Press, 1970.Beckett, Samuel. Krapps Last Tape and Embers. London, Faber and Faber,1968.Beckett, Samuel. Beckett The Complete Short Prose,1929-1989 ed. S.E. Gontarski. New-York Grove Press, 1995.Durozoi, Grard. Prsence littraire Beckett. Paris Bordas, 1972.Notes1 Collected Poems in English and French, 45.2 The Complete Short Prose, xi3 Durozoi, 101