Read this excerpt from Endgame by Samule Beckett:
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.
What thematic idea does this passage most clearly help develop?
A.At the end of the world, the disappearance of ordinary objects will seem like no big deal.
B.People who obey commands deserve to suffer because they do not think for themselves.
C.People who have power within a relationship sometimes exploit that power cruelly.
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C. People who have power within a relationship sometimes exploit that power cruelly.
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