Krapp's Last Tape [Read]

I am going to start this blog out differently.

A small confession: I took a glance at the "Read Section", realized it was a bit too long, and watched the "Clip Section" first. Meaning, I was able to picture the scene in my mind as I reluctantly read through the script - while the vice versa process could have resulted in a completely different approach. However I was able to pick up some lines from the script which some of them sounded like a bunch of mumbles in the video. Also, I came to realize at the end that both the reading and video dealt with an exactly same topic, except the fact that each gave me slightly different impressions. I am going to analyze this in the next post.

I would like to focus this post on Krapp's potential mental disease. In fact, I am sure Krapp is suffering from a chronic depression or hallucination. His behaviours were outrageously queer, according to: "He stoops, unlocks first drawer, peers into it, feels about inside it, takes out a reel of tape, peers at it, puts it back, locks drawer, unlocks second drawer peers into it, feels about inside it, takes out a large banana, peers at it, locks drawer, puts keys back in his pocket." This repeated a couple more times, so I concluded he enjoys things which most people find them very common.

When he was setting up the recording machine, he also repeatedly screams "Spools, spools, spools!" as if the tapes were everything to his life. I am assuming he was trying to recall a specific memory from the past which has pleasured him before, but as he listens to it, he seems to acknowledge the fact that he was as lonely as he is in his current situation. He stops and rewinds a few times when Krapp from 30 years ago was revealing his first love -

"Pause.

Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.

Pause.

Here I end--

Krapp switches off, winds tabe back, switches on again."

Even so, his actions were so inordinary that I thought at some points, he had been hallucinating as if he were back in the past. His final hope from recalling the past memories has failed, since he collapses on the desk only to realize his life was nothing but futile.