Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno by Natalie Leeder

Author:Natalie Leeder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International

Tethered to Clov by an instinct for self-preservation that belies his insistence that everything ought to end, Hamm resorts to cruelty – the only kind of torture that is in his power. His threat is to maintain Clov in a continual state of near-starvation, to which the weary Clov is only able to acknowledge the truth that, in that case, despite it all, ‘we shan’t die’. Clov is not the only character to bear the brunt of Hamm’s cruelty; his parents are notably kept in sand-lined dustbins like animals, and Hamm coldly instructs Clov to ‘[s]‌crew down the lids’ (103). Mother Pegg is another, though absent, victim:

Clov: (Harshly) When old Mother Pegg asked you for oil for her lamp and you told her to get out to hell, you knew what was happening then, no? (Pause) You know what she died of, Mother Pegg? Of darkness.

(129)

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