Read this excerpt from Endgame by Samuel Beckett:
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HAMM:
Go and get two bicycle-wheels.
CLOV:
There are no more bicycle-wheels.
HAMM:
What have you done with your bicycle?
CLOV:
I never had a bicycle
HAMM:
· The thing is impossible.
CLOV:
When there were still bicycles I wept to have one. I
crawled at your feet. You told me to go to hell. Now there
are none.
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What thematic idea does this passage most clearly help develop?
A. People who obey commands deserve to suffer because they do
not think for themselves.
B. At the end of the world, the disappearance of ordinary objects will
seem like no big deal.
C. People who have power within a relationship sometimes exploit
that power cruelly
D. At the end of the world, people will be more upset by the loss of
loved ones than anything else