"ASHES FOR ASHES" And "ENDGAME"

Abstract

The researcher in this paper tackled the theme of violence and reality in both plays; Harold Pinter's Ashes for Ashes and Samuel Beckett's Endgame. The theme of Violence was clear in the Ashes for Ashes play where masculine qualities have metastasized into something horrifying that are first manifested between the female protagonist Rebecca and her former lover and later more symbolically between the "he" and the "she". Devlin, Rebecca's present partner, is being portrayed as the fact finder, who is full of curiosity and sense of reason. On the hand,  The thematic territory, in Endgame is bleak. In a cement room, the limping Clov (Luke Mullins) performs daily rituals of opening windows, killing rats and tending to the blind, immobile Hamm (Colin Friels), who berates and controls him.