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BIRTH, DEATH AND SALVATION OF BECKETTIAN MAN

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1982
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Samuel Beckett is generally considered to write in the pessimistic tradition. For his characters, life is a process of "dying on" in a chaotic universe. God, if he exists, is cruelly indifferent. Death has no purpose, and therefore life is pointless. Suffering is real, however, and made more painful by the knowledge that there is neither Savior nor Salvation. Nevertheless Beckett repeatedly examines the Christian concept of Salvation in his work. Indeed, it has become framework, linguistic storehouse, source of metaphor, and spiritual yardstick in much of his canon. The doctrine of Salvation raises "the old questions" regarding man's destiny which so preoccupy Beckettian man; their contemplation has provided the matter for Beckett's writing, and that writing itself has perhaps saved him from despair.
Title: BIRTH, DEATH AND SALVATION OF BECKETTIAN MAN.
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Name(s): KALT, URSULA MARY.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Hokenson, Jan W., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1982
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 61 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Samuel Beckett is generally considered to write in the pessimistic tradition. For his characters, life is a process of "dying on" in a chaotic universe. God, if he exists, is cruelly indifferent. Death has no purpose, and therefore life is pointless. Suffering is real, however, and made more painful by the knowledge that there is neither Savior nor Salvation. Nevertheless Beckett repeatedly examines the Christian concept of Salvation in his work. Indeed, it has become framework, linguistic storehouse, source of metaphor, and spiritual yardstick in much of his canon. The doctrine of Salvation raises "the old questions" regarding man's destiny which so preoccupy Beckettian man; their contemplation has provided the matter for Beckett's writing, and that writing itself has perhaps saved him from despair.
Identifier: 14137 (digitool), FADT14137 (IID), fau:10951 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation
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