Endgame | Summary
The play opens by establishing the only mise-en-scéne of the play. Clov begins his daily ritual of drawing back the curtains of two windows (first the sea window and then the earth window). He uncovers two ashbins and then Hamm, who is still asleep. Clov delivers the play’s opening soliloquy, setting up the thematic tension between characters that seek an ending, either to life or their habitual lifestyles, and their impotency in activating the means to that end. Clov states, ‘‘I can’t be punished anymore,’’ which reinforces his discontent as Hamm’s servant and...
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