The authors of the two plays – Endgame and The Island managed to make the situations on stage represent a routine motif. In Endgame, routine is very important to the play's representation of time. At the very beginning of the piece, the word "finished" is repeated several times and the rest of the piece represents the idea that all starting and finishing lines are intertwined, that all life and all existence is cyclical . Whether it is the story of the tailor, who brings together his greatness of creation with endless delays, of Hamm and Clov killing the flea from which humanity can be recovered, or the constant references to Christ, whose death gave birth to a new religion. , the death-related endings in the play become one with the beginnings. While Hamm and Clov are in the "endgame" of their old lives, with death looming around the corner, they are also stuck in a perpetual loop that never allows for definitive closure. Hamm says he wants to be "done" but admits he's hesitant to do so. We get the feeling that the same scene played out several days before the stage lights were turned on. Indeed, Clov continues to bring the latter and look through the two windows which offer him minor contact with the outside world. Next, he removes the sheets covering Hagg and Nell as well as the one covering Hamm, precisely folding the sheets before putting them away. It is this routine, this circular daily monotony which breaks the lives of the characters from the movement of time generally experienced as linear, as progressing towards an end; but for Hamm and Clov, circles and circles of life. In this cycle of monotony, Hamm asks what the weather is like and Clov replies that it's the same as usual...... middle of paper ...... ally hidden in trash cans. The way each character speaks to one another draws on the idea that humans are inherently isolated, as they have no sincere contact with each other or the outside world. They speak, but are not really listened to. In the play The Island, even the title speaks of isolation. He says the prisoners who lived on Robben Island were separated from the rest of the world with no chance of escape. This probably made it even easier for the prisoners to decompose. This would be because people need each other, for things like human communication, natural human instincts, and a sense of home. Here we can see that the prisoners take these fundamental elements of life, which in turn corrupts the human mind. To add to the effect of loss of self, the prison itself is isolated and located on an island..