'Breath' by Samuel Beckett

TOPIC OF THE BLOG:-

This blog is a part of a thinking activity - Interpretation Challenge: Beckett's Breath -  given by Dilip Barad Sir from The English Department, MKBU, Bhavnagar. Check out Dilip Barad sir's Blog Site (Click here) for more information and knowledge about 'Breath' by Samuel Beckett and other works and writers. In this blog I like to tell something about Samuel Beckett and his play 'Breath' as per my understanding. For the blog on 'Breath' and how we have to do it check out Dilip Barad Sir's Blog on 'Breath' (Click here).

SAMUEL BECKETT:-

You're on Earth, There's 

no cure for that.

Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on April 13?, 1906 in Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland and died on December 22, 1989 in Paris, France. He was an author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot). (Esslin)

'BREATH':-

This play is considered as the shortest play by him. It has a few notes and without any character and dialogues.

Curtain.

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

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

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

Curtain.

He also adds some notes which helps us to understand how play goes.

Rubbish: No verticals, all scattered and lying.

Cry: Instant of recorded vagitus. Important that two cries be identical, switching on and off strictly synchronized light and breath.

Breath: Amplified recording.

Maximum light: Not bright. If 0 = dark and 10 = bright, light should move from about 3 to 6 and back.

For better understanding on this topic you can read a site of Open Culture (Click here).

HERE ARE OTHER INTERESTING INTERPRETATIONS ON THIS PLAY AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE:-

HINA PARMAR:-

ROHIT VYAS:-

AVNI JANI:-

TRUSHALI DODIYA:-

MY INTERPRETATION AND VIDEO ON 'BREATH':-

Here is my video on YouTube:-

INTERPRETATIONS:-

🌵First I Choose perfect angle from I can give justice as much as I can to Script by Beckett. 

🌵 Instead of soil I use plastic floor mat which shows that we humans are not like to live on soil but in house which has good tiles on floor.

🌵In first sight it has dark which in starting of something from dark to light.

🌵Two Dolls (made by me from handkerchief) I used as baby and with that I used baby crying sound as birth symbol.

🌵Than further one can see salt, Black Mung Bean, Mustard Seeds, Bay Leaf, Cloves, these foods and spices to show human loves to east with different tastes and human have to survive on food. 

🌵With that you can see used machine threads which shows that human wear so many different kinds of and colour of clothes too.

🌵There are also so many Pens, Pencils, Colours, Books, Phones and Trophy which shows human grow and study with that they draw and do art, read books, uses technology, wins, loose, see the colours, right and grow. 

🌵With trophy and books I put a mirror between that which means after some amount of true study and knowledge one can see there true self through mirror.

🌵Chalks shows that our journey from pens and pencils goes to Chalks, from learning we step forward to teaching. 

🌵I used 4 Books for this video, First is 'Letters of T.S. Eliot', which means one goes to learn more difficult and true Litrature and get to know writers too, Second is 'Shakespeare for Beginners' by Brandon Toropov' which has introduction and information about William Shakespeare in playful and funny way which shows learning is not something serious but is some to be enjoying, Third I use my book which has some writing too and that means some part of our life already written by us and Forth book I used empty one so that we can write more.

🌵Than there is view for medicine and tubes which shows humans condition as they grow old from young. 

🌵Than in last I used ashes of incense sticks as human turning into ashes after death. 

🌵With all this I used sound of a man breathing which shows life is still going.

🌵And for the conclusion sound I used Sound of man crying to show after death never any child but adults, youngsters and elders are crying for someone for themselves too. 

So, these are my interpretations which I used in my video of interpretation challenge.

WORKS CITED:-

🎥Esslin, Martin J.. "Samuel Beckett". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Dec. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Beckett.

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