Beckett's characters

[linz]

I'm not sure whether many here have read Beckett. His characters almost always suffer greatly, usually never with a sure reason or resolution.

Dostoevksy's triumphs seem great in there realization of the true futility of human existence. And that the only way the character can end the suffering is to resolve what is ailing them internally and to turn to things greater than themselves.

Beckett, thought less of his mammoth plays like Waiting for Godot and Endgame as time went on. Though it could be seen that he still saught inner meanings of these characters for future works. Beckett had great Religious knowledge, and his characters used there sufferings either as reason to come closer to God or more into themselves. Molloy and Moran are good examples of how tribulation leads to victory over the common senses.

Beckett's reasoning is much more nessesary for the nature of the character, and in this way is more natural then Dostoevsky. In Fyodor's novels the character are less personal than you would find in Beckett. But in many ways we have Dostoevsky to thank for making men think beyond the mere story, but the wretched and inner beast mechanism of society.

[lerik]

Oh I read waiting for Godot and I hated it.I don't really like this theatre of absurd because that is what really explains the suffering of the chractres unlike in Dostoevsky's works.

[linz]

We wouldn't be having this conversation if you had the slightest clue of Beckett's characters from Murphy on. So I'll just take it your ignorant of his work?