Samuel Beckett's Paly "Breath"

 Welcome Learners,

                  While studying ‘The Theatre of the Absurd’ and Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ in our Modern Literature Course, our professor discussed the film version of Beckett’s shortest play ‘Breath’ - thirty-seconds play and assigned us one of the most creative tasks to interpret this shortest play and shoot a small video.

                        Click on the link to navigate to Prof. Dr Dilip Barad Sir's blog on Interpretation Challenge: Breath: The Shortest Play by Samuel Beckett

Here is the script of this shortest play titled 'Breath'

The play has many concepts like  :

➡Nothingness,

➡Meaninglessness,

➡Absurdity, and

➡Existentialism

Interpretation of video :-

In the video we find many symbols like

Lock-A kind of bond

Mask & sanitizer-To protect the body

Fruits-Gives good health, different test 

Books- Students life, gives new thoughts 

Religion Books- Hope

Medicine- Disease and old

Candle -The soul in the human body

In the interpretation of this video we get to see death.  Because man puts a lot of effort into living life.  But all his efforts fail and in the end he has to die.  He goes through a lot of aspects of his life that he doesn't even know the meaning of. And there are a lot of activities that he does without any meaning.  When a man is born, he has many restrictions from the time he dies.  Which we understand by Lock.  Lock is a symbol of bondage.  Bonding comes to something in a man's life.  In which he presents his role absurdly.  Man works by being in the bondage of another.  He has to follow the rules.  He cannot walk on his own.

Some concept:-

Education :

Religion:

Politics:

Health care:

Farming:

Humanity:

Religion :-

In this video we will see religion books.  In which individuals no longer have faith in themselves, they now have faith in religion.  So in this video here we see Nihilism.  Nihilism means that after we have made an effort to live life, we must finally accept religion as nothing but religion, and without religion there will be no salvation.

Death:-

Death is an inevitable event.  Man adopts many tricks to avoid death.  But man's death is inevitable as part of nature.  So when it comes to death, the existentialist says that man should not mourn and embrace it. Example  medicine.

Candle (Soul) -

There is a soul in the human body.  This is what everyone believes.  If you do good deeds, the soul will go to heaven. If you do bad deeds, we are in hell and it will be annoying.  What happens to the soul after death?  All these things are absurd.

At the end part of the video , with the cry again it symbolizes a death of a person. So, It is a journey of human life from birth to death and in between what is the purpose of human life.

Other interpretation :-

This video shows the time crisis of Corona in a different way.  What a man's life has become.  The mortality rate in humans is higher during this time.  All his hopes turn to despair and he finally dies. All his attempts at life finally fail and he dies.  That is the law of nature.

Thanks.