Genre
Drama, play, theater of the absurd
Language
English
Setting and Context
Desert, time not specified, context not literally specified.
Narrator and Point of View
Stage Directions (Narrator), Third-Person Objective (Narrator-Point of View)
Tone and Mood
Formal-Playful (Tone); Hopeless (Mood)
Protagonist and Antagonist
Man (Protagonist), God (Antagonist, implied)
Major Conflict
A man is trying to get water but cannot reach it.
Climax
Everything is taken up into the flies (above).
Foreshadowing
At first there is nothing, then the man comes. It is foreshadowed, this is how it will end.
Understatement
"Man is flung backwards", as if he came from the vaginal canal, and this foreshadows he will eventually die.
Allusions
The text alludes to Lucky's character in Waiting for Godot and the clowning and tramps in Waiting for Godot and Endgame, both by Beckett.
Imagery
Desert, Dazzling light
Paradox
meager tuft of palms
Parallelism
n/a
Personification
It has a single bough three yards from the ground and at its summit meager tufts of palms casting at its foot a circle of shadow.
Use of Dramatic Devices
The whole text uses stage directions.
