Bret Stalcup About Me Page at Helium

just another meatsack, playing games, waiting to die

My passion is ...

many and varied....

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

i was bad

My childhood ambition ...

was to destroy

My favorite memory ...

too many for a favorite--i love my life

Why I write ...

i enjoy it

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

material for university studies primarily--philosophy major

My first job ...

criminal

My best moment ...

now

My inspiration ...

nietzsche

Arts & Humanities > Playwrights & Plays Play reviews: Waiting for Godot - En Attendant Godot, by Samuel Beckett: 4 of 6

Though alienation can be transcended to positive benefit, none of this can be seen in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot; instead, we find ourselves confronting perhaps the starkest portrayal of alienation, futility, and ennui in modernist literature. This alienation exists not primarily in relation to environmental factors but rather as an internal processthe central figures of the play (all of the figures, actually) seem completely incapable of engaging productive action beyond the most limited scopeeating a turnip or putting on a pair of boots is the limit of their effectiveness. In a v...
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