Breath

Hello everyone,

Today i write blog about the absurd play , while studying the play "Waiting for Godot' we discussed 'BREATH' shortest play ever by Samuel Beckett. In this blog i have a to give  my interpretation of this play as part of thinking activity and i also shoot one video and try to interpret it with the reference of Existentialism and Nihilism.

Samuel Beckett 

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer and  theatre director, poet, and literary translator. He wrote in both the language French and English. For more information about Smauel Beckett click here

Original play :- Breath

CURTAIN Up

1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.

2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.

3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds. 

CURTAIN Down

Picturization of the Play - Breath :-

My interpretation of the play is about newly married women, whose life is run around her husband's life, but she is happy ,live the life , there is meaning of her life. I put many  ornaments which show  and signified that she is happy with her married life as we know that Indian women's life is surrounded by her husband life , she became happy in her husband's happiness, she became sad in the loss of her husband so we can say whole life of her is limited with the her husband's life.

In video one can see that when light on there is ornaments are put in  proper way and everything is perfect , sound of heartbeat show that one was living life with the happiness. There are objects like Bengals, Bindi, Maang Tikka, Necklace, Mangalsutra, etc. And most significantly Red saree is the symbol of married women , but when light off we can see that  ornaments are broken and Colour of saree became change red into blue and everything was Messy , nothing is useful now because it seems like her husband was died, as Indian rituals when husband die , ornaments of women is became useless and she can not wear this again. One can observe that sound also changed heartbeat  stopped, as we know that when we can't get signal, that time we found such sound. 

These objects, which are displayed in the video as miscellaneous as an adaptation of Beckett's play with a different perspective displayed the decoration of a female body. Not only the beautification but more than that, it characterizes the chains that are holding from liberation. 

On the other side if we look at the same question from an Absurdist point of view , as we know that in India after the death of husband there is no meaning of the widow and she has to leave everything and live life with simplicity without any big dream and facilities. We can say she live life as died person.

One can also interpret death like, In this digital era when we call somebody and we can't get network that time we got such sound which signifies that network of the divice.

Conclusion :-

So, in my interpretation of the play breath is about women who just married and became widow through the women ornaments which signifies her happiness and sadness, i also used sound which signifies the life and death of the person. 

Thank you:)