On the Mind's Strand: A Study of Samuel Beckett's Embers

Abstract

The present study is an exploration into the mind of the main character in Beckett's play, Embers, which takes the listeners and readers in a journey to collective unconscious of Henry, revealing its present state as determined by his conflicting past memories, where each memory tries to preside over the other, and each one forces the character to thrust backward and forward in time.