Aspects de l'eau dans le théâtre de beckett

Abstract

Beckett's theatre systematically attempts to reject the euphoric values that might be associated with the water element, when it is part of the description of a landscape, by linking it to imprisonment, absence, death and degradation. In Beckett's later works, waters increasingly turn out to be expressions of the hardly bearable inner world of the characters. Thus Beckett's writing contributes to the representation of life as a paradox experienced by his characters. Whether an object of discourse or a metaphor for speech, water reveals how life is essentially trapped in a core of impossibilities.