Samuel Beckett의 희곡에 드러나는 불확실성에 대한 연구 = A Study on the Uncertainty in the Drama of Samuel Beckett.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this Paper is to study about the meaning of the uncertainty in the drama of Samuel Beckett. When I began to study the work of Beckett, the general impression seemed to be that his plays portrays the impossibility of achieving meaning in this chaotic world. It appeared to me that his play progressed towards a total nothingness, a nihilism.
But after close reading of his works it seemed to be able to discover another way of meaning in them. This paper is to detect the significance of the uncertainty not in the literal sense of the word but in the demonstration of a scientific proof.
In Waiting for Godot, in which plot, language and characters crumble to uncertainty, there is nothing certain. While waiting for Godot the two tramps. Vladimir and Estragon, waste time to avoid their loneliness because they don't care about the present. Their only future and meaning of existence in this time is dependent upon a visit of Godot. However Godot doesn't come and seems not to appear for ever. Their future is uncertain. The Beckettian characters cannot identify their real existence with themselves at a moment because being itself is in time and has to be changed in the stream of time. Both their future and present are uncertain.
The uncertainty is a creature of the times and a result of the destruction of faith which hale been bequeathed to us since the Old Greek, the illusion of mankind, the Absolute being. Man realizes that he is thrown into life without any given meaning or purpose. Man has to find out the value of human being from emptiness of this world himself.
The uncertainty means not the ambiguity of the whole things and events in the world but the possibility of the discrimination of some uncertain things from the major premise of authenticity. In this confusion and uncertainty one thing alone is certain. We are here now. Let us not waste our time in idle discourse. Let us do something, while we have the chance.(Waiting for Godot, p. 51a)

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ.서론
• Ⅱ.Samuel Beckett의 희곡에 내재한 불확실성
• Ⅲ.Beckett극의 불확실성이 드러내는 의미
• Ⅳ.결론