... younger age. Also as the play develops Krapps pauses and hesitations increase which again emphasizes Krapps old age. This depicts Krapp as a pathetic character. The silver watch has much significance in the play as it not only emphasizes to the audience the importance of time but also that Krapps death is near. The third paragraph introduces the tape recorder, which relates Krapp's past revealing it to be very tedious. The reels of tape about his life emphasize the importance of time to him as he is trying to preserve his past memories on tape. The reels of tape seem to be less important to him as he begins to suffer memory loss with age. The words he had used in his past memories have lost their meaning to him and he resorts to a dictionary in an attempt to restore the meaning to these words and hence to his ...

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