Interpretation Challenge : Breath : The Shortest Play by Samuel Beckett

This blog  is a response to the video challenge by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. We are assigned to make a video of a self - interpretation on Samuel Beckett's shortest play 'Breath'. visit sir blog to read in detail. click here

Samuel Beckett 

Samuel Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theater director, poet, and literary translator. He  is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esllin called the Theater of the Absurd. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize of literature "for his writing, which  in new forms for the novel and drama in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation.

Breath - A Play

The play in the world was written by Samuel Beckett titled 'Breath.' There are no dialogues, characters, scenes or props in the play. Breath is an unusual brief work  by Beckett.  This play is interpreted in various ways. 

The script of the play: 

CURTAIN Up

1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.

2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.

3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds. 

CURTAIN Down

My Interpretation of the play 

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I  have tried to be more faithful to  the script of the play. In my picturization, stock market images symbolize the money, wealth, power. It seem to be absurd idea. Money is a part of whole human life. The value of  money is its Purchasing power. Money is a medium of exchange; it allows people to  obtain what thay  need to live.  Money is important part of human life and money is sometime meaningless also.   

The second image was stock market symbol as Bull. Bull  used as many subject symbol like cultures, economical, astrological. Bull as symbol of wealth and abundance, the bull has held symbolic importance for thousands of years across many different cultujoyres. In hindu cultures bull as symbol of lord shiva vehicle Nandi,  which means " giving delight" or " giving ."  Happiness  also as  part of absurdness of life. 

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