Orwell and Beckett understood the importance of language as both communication and misdirection.

Protester attacked while leaving Trump rally - can Beckett and Orwell help us understand how the manipulation of language can deliberately mislead others?

Is language a form of communication to help us understand each other better or is it a form of power and control?

In our time is language being used in an inflammatory way to provoke feelings of difference and hatred of those with whom we disagree?

LITERATURE - Samuel Beckett

WHY DOES BECKETT HIGHLIGHT THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN regarding the death of Jesus?

What is the story of the Two Thieves on the Cross during the CRUCIFIXION of Jesus on the Cross? 
Beckett's characters discuss why some of the 4 Evangelists (writers of the gospels, do not even mention this popular story of the repentant thief and the unrepentant thief.)
In the aftermath of World War 2, philosophers and writers search for truth and meaning.... but even  holy books do not agree on ONE GRAND NARRATIVE ..... narratives are fragmented and more personal ..... we cannot trust grand narratives....

WAITING FOR GODOT 

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Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot at San Quentin

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John Guare, Playwright of Six Degrees of Separation

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Edward Said - An Introduction to Orientalism

Chapman University Center for Creative Writing - The John Fowles Center.

https://www.chapman.edu/research/institutes-and-centers/john-fowles-center/index.aspx

John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

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Patrick Stewart as Macbeth ("Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow")

Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

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W.B.Yeats - An Irish Airman Forsees His Death

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