Power of Friendship and Relationship in Waiting for Godot and Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Power of friendship and relationship in Waiting for Godot and Endgame by Samuel Beckett. Human happiness in a Beckettian style.
Endgame and Waiting for Godot of 1957 and 1953 by Samuel Beckett are texts that show little sign of conventional happiness of human existence. Instead they pursue an absurdist and nihilistic themes where humans are pictured in a hopeless and repetitive daily routine. These two Beckett’s literary texts could be considered as a response to damages and degradation of humanity caused by the Second World War of 1939 – 1945. Both texts explore existential questions about life and the role of humanity in the world, and our happiness with the environment and ourselves. “Are we happy?” appears in Waiting for Godot many times. A sense of truth and happiness within human existence has been a central question for a long time in human enquiry. In fact it could be argued that a man needs another human to fully achieve conventional potential of happiness. Happiness and our existence only mean something if a human can share it with someone else. Beckett sets up his characters in pairs: Hamm and Clov, Nell and Nagg of Endgame; Vladimir and Estragon and Lucky and Pozzo of Waiting for Godot, implying in the same way that a man needs another human to share their experiences, conversations and to explore their potential to be happy or to reject happiness. “All of Beckett’s pairs are bound in friendship that are essentially power-relationships” (Pilling, 71). Godot and Endgame. Beckett’s characters are set in a daunting, endless process of waiting; waiting for something or somebody that may or may not appear. It is the fact that each day of Beckett characters’ life is typified by the same repetitive I would like to pursue aspects of this argument by examining some of examples in Samuel Beckett Waiting for routine. As John Pilling condemns “in fact, time does not pass in this world; rather, the characters have to find ways of passing
Endgame and Waiting for Godot of 1957 and 1953 by Samuel Beckett are texts that show little sign of conventional happiness of human existence. Instead they pursue an absurdist and nihilistic themes where humans are pictured in a hopeless and repetitive daily routine. These two Beckett’s literary texts could be considered as a response to damages and degradation of humanity caused by the Second World War of 1939 – 1945. Both texts explore existential questions about life and the role of humanity in the world, and our happiness with the environment and ourselves. “Are we happy?” appears in Waiting for Godot many times. A sense of truth and happiness within human existence has been a central question for a long time in human enquiry. In fact it could be argued that a man needs another human to fully achieve conventional potential of happiness. Happiness and our existence only mean something if a human can share it with someone else. Beckett sets up his characters in pairs: Hamm and Clov, Nell and Nagg of Endgame; Vladimir and Estragon and Lucky and Pozzo of Waiting for Godot, implying in the same way that a man needs another human to share their experiences, conversations and to explore their potential to be happy or to reject happiness. “All of Beckett’s pairs are bound in friendship that are essentially power-relationships” (Pilling, 71). Godot and Endgame. Beckett’s characters are set in a daunting, endless process of waiting; waiting for something or somebody that may or may not appear. It is the fact that each day of Beckett characters’ life is typified by the same repetitive I would like to pursue aspects of this argument by examining some of examples in Samuel Beckett Waiting for routine. As John Pilling condemns “in fact, time does not pass in this world; rather, the characters have to find ways of passing