Change is something that has been discussed as being an inevitable part of human life. It is something which humans have experienced many times and will continue to experience it many more times throughout their lives. As with anything else there are different types, or levels, of change that can occur. Perhaps the most obvious ones to categorize change by are internal and external. Internal being a change that will affect you personally as opposed to external which is change to make an impact on more than one person, some extreme cases also are encountered on a worldwide scale.
One such example of internal changes (or changes in perspective) is shown in the play "Krapp's Last Tape" written by Samuel Beckett. This stage play evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday. All of Samuel Beckett's plays are focused around the same themes (as is all absurd drama). These themes include the futility of human life and the pointlessness of bare existence. "Krapp's Last Tape" is no exception to these themes.
Living solely in a solitary room sits an old man at a desk. This is Krapp, and t
Before television was more than a mere sketch on the pages of invention radio was the media of the masses. Every morning, evening and night families all over the globe would be tuning in their wireless to the closest broadcast of sport, news and even stories. One of the more memorable stories would have to be "The War of the Worlds". Adapted into a radio script for an April Fools Day joke this play was performed to make the listener think that they were being attacked by beings from Mars. What was meant to be taken as a mere practical joke escalated into a full-scale pandemonium.
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