T.S Eliot’s masterpiece poem, The Waste Land, and Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play, Endgame were both written in the shadow of great disasters. Land has tones desolation despair humanity is shown at brink extinction. Beckett known for his association with Theatre Absurd where suffering meaninglessness life stressed on. presents disillusionment man a decayed meaningless modern world. Written afte...

This study investigates the foregrounded patterns inosculated to form Nobel Prize-winning author, critic, and playwright Samuel Beckett’s short story “Ping” aims reveal his purpose of using these patterns. One remarkable contributions Russian Formalism Prag School Structuralism stylistics is concept foregrounding by which writers bring a particular textual pattern (a phoneme, word, phrase, clau...

Abstract Wole Soyinka and Samuel Beckett apparently occupy distinct places in the literary space, all ramifications. Specifically, while former’s dramaturgy is definable within context of traditional convention playwriting, otherwise known as well-made plays, latter inherently non-conformist this regard. Hence, effort paper was to locate a nexus their writings, using two Death King’s Horseman E...

The Second World War caused long-term destruction to human life in the countries involved. As a result, at that time was severely affected by many economic, educational, and social factors exceeded physical disability psychological trauma. Likewise, COVID-19 pandemic has created situation of terms diverse conditions life. This paper studies similarities differences between during COVID-19. reli...