The father and son relationship in "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett

"Endgame", as one of Samuel Beckett's most famous plays, describes the ritual small routines of lives of four people who are living in a bare, partially underground room. The title "Endgame" is taken from the last part of a chess game when there are very few pieces left, which implies those four people's life would end soon. By showing the complex relationships between four people, the play expresses family dysfunction and codependence. They do not …

…the motif that the nature is cyclical. Throughout the play Beckett's characters' hope for some resolution, some event that will bestow meaningfulness on their empty lives, some emotional apotheosis that will bring release or perhaps they just wait for death. In the play three father-son relationships play an important role and they together contribute to a motif in Endgame that the existence of nature is repetitive and cyclical despite lives are continuing perished and reborn.