Endgame

by

Samuel Beckett

Hamm’s Painkillers

The painkillers that Hamm asks Clov to give him throughout the play are an embodiment of the fact that Hamm is waiting in vain for something to happen that will ease his misery. In this…

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The Bloody Handkerchief

The bloody handkerchief that Hamm wears over his face at the beginning and end of the play is a representation of the futile ways that he tries to avoid suffering even though he knows that…

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