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The Concept of Time in Beckett’s Happy Days | ||
| Journal Of AL-Turath University College | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 241-262 | ||
| Author | ||
| Maha Samih | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Beckett dealt with human beings in extreme situations not because he was interested in the sordid and diseased aspects of life but because he concentrated on the essential aspects of human experience. The subject matter of so much of the world's literature—the social relations between individuals, their manners and possessions, their struggles for rank and position, appeared to Beckett as mere external trappings of existence, the accidental and superficial aspects that mask the basic problems and the basic anguish of the human condition. In Happy Days, a woman, literally sinking continually deeper into the ground, nonetheless continues to prattle about the trivialities of life. Beckett employed time to bring her closer to her death. The paper includes three sections with an introduction and a conclusion. The introduction presents a brief summery about the theatre of the Absurd, and Beckett’s use of time in his works. Section one introduces the timelessness in the play Happy Days. Section Two focus on the relationship between Winnie’s props and habits and time in the play. Section Three explains Winnie’s flash backs and memories. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| time; Beckett | ||
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