"Write an essay on the 'Mahood' concept of language and things in the Unnamable: take a passage that helps you define the attempt to define an essence (of man) that separates a higher self that fixes or defines a lower world of more and less stable, worm-like things or defines a stable hierarchy of physical experience: "Pupil Mahood, repeat after me, man is a higher mammal" (337). How is this "my-ness" connection and difference between (lower) essence and the (higher) name, a problem in the Unnamable? Name two similar patterns of imagery that play out the "Mahood" problem in The Trilogy--one each from Molly, and another from Malone Dies--and show how these explorations of naming and essence are different from, and connected to, the world of The Unnamable. In your conclusion, reflect on how "Clov" in Endgame, and his symbols of naming and reason--"magnifier," "insecticide," "wheelchair," or other implements--comment on the problem of naming in Beckett."

I. LOVE. THIS. STUFF. Beckett, prepare for destruction.