베케트 극에 나타난 반복성의 제의적 의미 : 사뮤엘 베케트

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The Ritualistic Meaning of the Repetition in Beckett's Plays
Abstract Jeong-Keun Park
The repetition technique which appears here and there in Beckett's plays may embarass the audience who are familiar to the realistic plays composed on the basis of 'cause and effect'. Even though Beckett's plays are to be classified as absurd drama, it is difficult to find the clue with which the audience can understand the theme in the story of Beckett's plays. It is because Beckett himself endeavored to destroy the previous form of drama and create a new one through modernism. He boldly omitted or minimized the dialogue to develop the story, whereas his strategy could revive the theatrical elements on the stage. Escaping from the realism, which depends on language too much, he showed us versitile theatricality by means of the chemical fusion of sound effects, light, and movements.
In the viewpoint of Beckett, the naked people, facing the existential death, lead their deathlike static life with their illusive masks of civilization torn by the terrible reality. Beckett's characters, losing the religious faith, perform meaningless repetitive acts of ritual like their habits. In this paper, I don't intend to prove whether their salvation can be really achieved or not. The ritualistic acts without any possibility of salvation cannot evade the negative evaluation, but the origin of their lives should exist in their desperate quest for salvation. In this paper, I try to search for ritualistic elements that have made uncertain or transformed in the Beckett's plays, which can be shown in the form of only a few outlines and broken fragments. Modern people in Beckett's plays ought to have frightened the contemporary audience because they lost the identity and immersed in infantile games without knowing how to perform their sincere rituals. Furthermore, they cannot solve the problem of boredom of life with their meaningless games. Notwithstanding, we must create a new meaning from their horrible battle against enormous void by seeking the old form of ritual hidden in the grotesque acts of Beckett's characters.

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사뮤엘 베게트,   반복성,   제의적 의미,   정체된 삶,   가치관,   사회적 소외