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Joyce's novel world is rich, complex and optimistic. Beckett's art world is boring, monotonous and pessimistic. Pessimism is indeed Beckett's nature. Looking back, he directly admitted: "I have no talent for happiness." But the pessimism in Beckett's art is universal beyond the individual, and he writes about the mental state of human beings in despair.

Beckett's minimalist aesthetics coincides with Nothing in Despair. For example, on the stage waiting for Godot, there is only one dead tree left in the whole world. Beckett's characters are mostly old people whose vitality is on the verge of exhaustion. They have nothing but memories. They have nothing to do but chat. In other words, the personal feelings and language emphasized by modernism are precisely the only wealth of these dying people. In this way, Beckett's creation deduces the concept of modernism to a possible end.

Beckett's pessimistic nature made him and his mentor Joyce embark on the opposite creative path, but the reasons for this turn are both subjective nature and objective opportunities. 1June, 938, Beckett was stabbed in the streets of Paris and almost died. Later he asked the man's motive in court, and the murderer replied, "I don't know." Excuse me, sir. " You see, in this situation, people will inevitably think that life is ridiculous, and it is difficult for anyone to remain optimistic. The subsequent World War II can be said to have severely stabbed the whole world, and modern civilization was almost destroyed. In World War II, Beckett joined the French resistance and survived, but witnessed the arrest and killing of many close relatives and friends. If mankind had not experienced World War II, perhaps Beckett would be regarded as a peculiar minority writer. However, after the terrible World War II, Beckett's artistic innovation became the voice of the times and completely reversed the trend of literature. From then on, writers can run a complex world without being secretive, just be good tailors and sew a reason for people's lives-this is sometimes called "Godot" and "pants" in Beckett's works-they may be insignificant, but it is absolutely impossible without them.

Although I analyzed the jokes about the world and pants well, they didn't amuse me in the play. But this old joke reminds her of the boat capsizing on her honeymoon. At that time, with the dazzling white sunshine and the clear bottom of the lake, she muttered, "It's so white … empty …" After reading it, she died. She was also the only person in Beckett who died on the stage. The final is a one-act play, unlike Waiting for Godot, which is divided into two symmetrical and repeated acts. Naomi died nearly half in the play, which may be a relief for herself, but it reminds us that the final will not repeat itself. What players are waiting for is no longer the illusory Godot, but the real death. In the next part, I will talk about how this "game" ended and the fate of King Ham.

At the end of the play, Ham, the blind man, blew his whistle again, but Clough stopped answering. By this time, Clough had put on his coat, hat and umbrella, and finally decided to turn the declaration of leaving into action. Hamm thought Clough had finally left, so he threw away his whistle and covered his face with a handkerchief. In fact, Clough stopped at the door, neither going out nor coming back, just like the story came to an abrupt end in the middle. The so-called end, the end is not over.

Beckett's works are like an asymptotic line in mathematics, always approaching and never touching. You can call that line "Godot" or "Ending" Although all Beckett's works are about some dying people, almost no one gives in to death. They always stubbornly "continue" in their own way, continue to tell, continue to wait, continue to perform, continue to walk, and then walk for "100,000 years". Many people think Beckett is the saddest and gloomy writer, but in fact Beckett is the most inspirational. On the one hand, he tells you that failure is inevitable, but on the other hand, he will tell you, "Never mind, try again, fail again, and lose better."

The beginning and end of the final didn't disappoint me. At the beginning of "Doomsday", it is Clough's line: "It's over, it's all over, it's almost over, it must be almost over." At the end of Doomsday, it is Ham's line: "You ... Go on". The "you" in this sentence is what Ham said to the audience. The final is not over, and it may never be, because there will always be "you" to continue for him. Ham, who was blind, finally saw the world outside the play. The world has not been destroyed, and there will always be new plays.

To sum up, samuel beckett was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 and also a "modernist". He pursues minimalism, digs out the outside world and goes straight to his heart. The ending is the culmination of Beckett's artistic achievements. In this play, the modern world has been destroyed and the older generation has been thrown into the trash can. The whole play revolves around a master and a servant. The master mistreats the servant, and the servant wants to leave the master, but he can't. Beckett skillfully condensed the multiple subtle relationships between the two men and discussed the mental state of human beings in despair. There is no definite ending in the final, because Beckett always leaves a glimmer of hope in despair. After the final, Beckett's artistic experiments became more extreme and dark, which is not acceptable to everyone, but Beckett continued his bitter encouragement to mankind in these works: the world is not worth it, but you must live anyway!