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Hamm's Ambivalence in Endgame, a Post-catastrophe Play

Hori, Mariko, Issued : 2019.12.30, 青山經濟論集 <TF01306130>
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コレクションコード 紀要論文
コレクションコード 青山經濟論集
コレクションコード 71
ソースレコードID AN00008892
タイトル Hamm's Ambivalence in Endgame, a Post-catastrophe Play
作成者 堀, 真理子
ホリ, マリコ
Hori, Mariko
出版者 青山学院大学経済学会
出版者 アオヤマ ガクイン ダイガク ケイザイ ガッカイ
NCID AN00008892
ISSN(プリント) 03856798
DOI URL https://doi.org/10.34321/21210
収録物名 青山經濟論集
収録物名 アオヤマ ケイザイ ロンシュウ
収録物名 The Aoyama journal of economics
巻次等 71
号 3
開始ページ 1
終了ページ 13
日付 Issued : 2019.12.30
内容記述 When Judith Butler refers to Melanie Klein in her essay, `Survivability, Vulnerability, Affect', she contends whether `the question of survival precedes the question of morality; indeed, it would seem that guilt does not index a moral relation to the other, but an unbridled desire for self-preservation'. In Endgame, Hamm, a survivor of an unknown calamity, exposes his feeling of guilt toward the dead, such as Mother Pegg who was not buried properly, and a man who appears in his routine storytelling as a pale and thin stranger who asked him whether he could provide bread for his child and take in the child. Hamm's habit of saying `Forgive me' to Clov, despite its cold offhand tone, also seems to stem from his guilt. However, his remorse towards the dead other does not give him a chance to create `a moral relation to the other', as is shown in his treatment of the co-inhabitants—Nagg, Nell, and Clov. Accompanied with the survivor's strong resistance and denial of what has made him feel guilty, Hamm even gives up his family attachment. He behaves as if he did not care what happened in the past, either obsessed with trivial things at present or with stories that would alleviate his pain. It could be what Adorno calls the `principle of inertia', that is, `the form of consciousness and mind which adapts itself to the world as it is'. This essay, especially focusing on Hamm's ambivalent feelings of guilt, will discuss how Beckett, through his drama, ironizes a survivor's `evil' (again from Adorno).
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