Beckett, Samuel

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An Irish-born twentieth-century French author who is best known for the play Waiting for Godot. (See also theater of the absurd.)

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The house decays around Amelia and Samuel, their world narrows and becomes mad, undealable with.
Grief: The Real Monster in The Babadook|Tim Teeman|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Samuel is not weapons-obsessed because he is the kind of young boy who gravitates to wars and fighting.
Grief: The Real Monster in The Babadook|Tim Teeman|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Wiseman as Samuel is alternately Devil-child and a cute young kid.
Grief: The Real Monster in The Babadook|Tim Teeman|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He died in a car crash on the way to the hospital where she gave birth to her son, Samuel (Noah Wiseman).
Grief: The Real Monster in The Babadook|Tim Teeman|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Amelia must do this every day in loving Samuel—who often appears as a reminder of the irreparable past and death of Oskar.
‘The Babadook’ Is the Best (and Most Sincere) Horror Movie of the Year|Samuel Fragoso|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We might live very comfortably together now, Mr. Samuel, eh?
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
Samuel Squire, bishop of St. David's died; a poetical, historical and antiquarian writer of note.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
There was another personality that loomed large, in those years, on the Midland—Samuel Swarbrick, the accountant.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Here Mr. Samuel Weller, who had silently eaten his oysters with tranquil smiles, cried “Hear!”
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
Samuel Clarke, a famous English divine, died; celebrated also for his writings on mathematics, &c.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell