2019 Volume 4 Issue 2 Supplementary
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REVISITING RHIZOMATIC IDENTITIES IN SAMUEL BECKETT’S THE TRILOGY: A DELEUZEAN ‎READING


Masumeh PASBAN
Abstract

This study was an endeavor to examine the working of the Deleuzean concept of rhizomatic to ‎analyze Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. By considering the self as a rhizomatic story, the author ‎engendered a story structure that not only offered an utilizable view on how individuals ‎narratively construct their selfhood but additionally stimulated an experiment with alternative, ‎nontraditional presentation forms. Events are themselves differences in that, like the present ‎which reiterates itself but is always a different present, the events which occur in our world are ‎always different from one another. They are the things which transpire in the world, the things ‎which have transpired and which are transpiring now, and it is this series of happenings which ‎define who we are. Deleuze further considered that, like an animal habituating to a given ‎environment, events transpire around quandaries and it is the quandaries which define the shape ‎of a given society. The present study addressed how the conception of the rhizomatic conditions ‎the constructed identities in Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable as rhizomatic texts ‎which itself challenged the very conception of the meaning‎‎.


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