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Both Synge and Beckett dealt with a singular theme in their works, Synge's being the depiction of the lives of real and simple population; and Beckett's, revealing the ultimate reality of human life. But, while Beckett experimented a lot with this sole theme presenting the old wine in a new bottle each time; Synge falls prey to monotony. Beckett explored and re-explored his theme and strived to make the presentation all anew always; Synge suffered from repetition. Besides, all his works relied for the subject matter on the folklores of the same people and the language purposely made poetic which hampered variety. T. S. Eliot analyses Synge's plays and concludes, "The plays of John Millington Synge form rather a special case, because they are based upon the idiom of a rural people whose speech is naturally poetic, both in imagery and in rhythm...Synge wrote plays about characters whose originals in life talked poetic so that he could make them talk poetry and remain real people." Too much detailing, too much talk, are what destroy interest in Synge's plays. The motive of joy and realism together hampers him from being straightforward. As Synge himself overjoys the experiment he conducts and goes gaga about his innovative gesture in the Preface of The Playboy of the Western World saying, "On the stage one must have reality, and one must have joy; and that is why the intellectual modern drama has failed, and people have grown sick of the false joy of the musical comedy, that has been given them in place of the rich joy found only in what is superb and wild in reality." Actually, exaggeration of expression is the element that draws our attention away from the action and the reader feels being strangulated in the web of words.