Question

Read this excerpt from Endgame by Samuel Beckett:

HAMM:
Nature has forgotten us.
CLOV:
There's no more nature.
HAMM:
No more nature! You exaggerate.
CLOV:
In the vicinity.
HAMM:
But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals!
CLOV:
Then she hasn't forgotten us.
HAMM:
But you say there is none.

What theme does this passage most clearly help develop?
a. people sometimes grow dependent on painful, difficult relationships.
b. language can be used to express nonsensical and meaningless ideas
c. even at the end of the world, reverence for nature is necessary
d. if human beings destroy the world, nature will rebuild it

Answer 1

The theme that this passage most clearly helps develop is even at the end of the world, reverence for nature is necessary.

Step-by-step explanation:

The theme that this passage most clearly helps develop is c. even at the end of the world, reverence for nature is necessary. The characters in this excerpt are discussing the absence of nature and the impact it has on their lives. While one character claims that there is no more nature, the other character argues that if they are still able to breathe and change, then nature has not forgotten them. This highlights the importance of nature and the need to appreciate it, even in difficult circumstances.

Answer 2

d. Language can be used to express nonsensical and meaningless

Step-by-step explanation: