Oh the Sorrow...         During the 20th century, there was an evident disillusion and disintegration in religious views and human nature due to the horrific and appalling events and improvements in technology of this time, such as the Holocaust and the creation of the atom bomb. This has left people with little, if any, faith in powers above or in their own kind, leaving them to linger in feelings of despair and that life is an …showed first 75 words of 839 total…

…showed last 75 words of 839 total…profound plot, he provide an intriguing and outstanding job of exploiting the details of imagery and dialogue to express his despairing and cynical interpretation of the world. Because of his emphasis upon the 'trifles' of the play, he is able to reemphasize and convincingly convey Krapp's disenchantment with his own life. Works Cited: Beckett, Samuel. 'Krapp's Last Tape,' The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyers. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press,1993. 1627- 1633.