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Beckett’s work has been presented in a variety of forms ranging from theatre, to radio plays and film. His work scales from the lengthy Waiting for Godot which comprises of two acts, followed with a long journey through the radio creation of ‘All that Fall,’ to the fragment of life represented in Breath with comprises of a brief cry and the slow inspiration and exhalation of breath. The means in which the performance is presented is diverse, yet the drama never fails to follow the bleak, desolate characteristics of all of Beckett’s late work. The characters rarely fail to live out a hopeless existence in a play that ends with no resolution. In Beckett’s work the ‘people always seem to be falling to bits,’(Beckett) searching for something to put significance into their meaningless lives. In Beckett’s late plays of course, this does not occur, due to the cyclical repetitive style in which the characters lives are portrayed as passing time until death. Act Without Words II contemplates the forces that drive man and are beyond his control. From the presentation, which is performed in mime, we see man determined by a compulsive force to live that rarely allows him to withdraw from action. The goad, rousing A and Bâ€