Significance of Death

Death (also known as Beggar Woman and Old Woman) as a beggar woman is an outsider to the play's community who does not bother herself with the community's pain. On the contrary, she seems to enjoy the proceedings, and as Death she thirsts after every life with which she comes into contact. Her bloodthirstiness and emotional coldness suggest how death is thought of by mere mortals, who view its inevitability and demands as anathema to human wishes and hopes.