Beckett quotes from plays Flashcards
HD
Winnie’s Items
toothbrush, spectacles, revolver, red medicine, lipstick
parasol
HD
What item did Winnie forget to use?
‘[smile appears…suddenly replaced by an expression of anxiety] My hair! [Pause.] Did I brush and comb my hair?’
‘normally I do not put things back after use’
HD
What does Winnie say at the opening?
(After prayers)
‘Begin, Winnie. [Pause.] Begin your day.’
HD
Winnie’s attitude to the bell in Act II
‘ignore the bell…just sleep and wake, sleep and wake.’
KLT
Krapp’s banana intolerance
‘Have just eaten I regret to say three bananas…Fatal things for a man with my condition.’
KLT
What word does Krapp forget?
‘[His lips move in the syllables of ‘viduity’. No sound.]’
KLT
B_ A_, when does he say this?
‘Be again…Be again… All that old misery. [Pause.] Once wasn’t enough for you’
In his final speech before he plays the tape for the last time.
HD
Winnie’s first kiss
‘My first kiss!’
Mr Johnstone, ‘very bushy moustache’
‘We had no toolshed and he most certainly had no toolshed’
‘The shadows deepening among the rafters.’
HD
Why is Winnie grateful to Willie?
‘even when you do not answer and perhaps hear nothing, something of this is being heard.’
HD
Winnie without Willie
‘what would I do, what could I do, all day long, I mean between the bell for waking and the bell for sleep.’
C
The Opener’s fear
‘I’m afraid to open. / But I must open. / So I open.’
C
Habits of the voice
‘couldn’t rest…straight away another…’
‘then sleep…’
NI
bzzz
‘what?…the buzzing?…yes’
NI
Denial, when does this occur
‘what?…who?…no!…she! [pause and movement]’
5 times, more frequently near the end.
HD
Winnie’s line
‘What is that wonderful line?’
