Interpretation of the play 'Breath' by Samuel Beckett

• Interpretation of the play 'Breath' by Samuel Beckett

Hello readers, This Blog is a part of thinking activity given by professor in which students have to interpret the 30 second play 'Breath' by Samuel Beckett. Here is the link of professor's blog click here

About Samuel Beckett.

Samuel Barclay Beckett's journey of life between 13 April 1906 to 22 December 1989. He was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theater director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life and he wrote in both English and French languages.
Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragic comic outlook on human existence, often coupled with Black comedy and gallows humor, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last Morenist writers and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theater of absurd."

1) Breath by Damien Hirst. 

During Watching this video or play, I notify one thing that There are clip moving with sound of the flow of breath out from human body for specific reason. Let me know that there are rubbish of like waste medicine and store of waste hospital which reflected happening bad thing certain place and worst life & wealth. Moreover I found symbol of 'swastika' which almost connected with Hitler and his rules. Another way If I want to saw so that It's represented sometimes our belief and religion leads towards rubbish things.

2) Breath by Liana De Jordan

In this video we can see overlaid of fruits and vegetables, some of the fruits are jointed each other and some of our separate, it may be video suggest that fruits and vegetables are a contradiction between them and they both live in the same world. And we can connect human beings also because human lives like them we are attached to a number of people even w
e are alone nobody with us.


3) National Theater school first year Technical production class project,Production of Samuel Beckett’s play Breath

This video started with darkness then through the light we can see rubbish and listen to some of the weird crying voice, maybe it means that living things exist and end. Life and death concept showed in the shown light on and listen weird voice life that is single of life journey start and when light off again weird voice and darkness it is suggest death. May be this video suggests that how life is nothing but waiting for death.

4) Samuel Beckett’s play Breath

In the last video working with background sound of child crying. So I think it's connected with generation the world and earth. Another interpretation is that human being born on the planet as a curse so that may be born as a human being on planet is rubbish thing. Moreover now I have another interpretation in my mind based on back ground sound. May be it's sound of happening rape and paining. Thus, I want to say that Here Samuel Beckett has presented reality of life and world. He also explained absurdity through the play " Breath ".