(DOWNLOAD) "Winnie; A Lonely Fighter Against Nothingness/Winnie: Une Lutteuse Solitaire Contre Le Neant." by Canadian Social Science ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Winnie; A Lonely Fighter Against Nothingness/Winnie: Une Lutteuse Solitaire Contre Le Neant.
- Author : Canadian Social Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 193 KB
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1. INTRODUCTION Samuel Beckett's avant-garde and profound plays make him one of the most accomplished and influential playwrights of the 20th century and one of the founders of the Theatre of the Absurd. Many researches have been done on Waiting for Godot, Beckett's theatrical masterpiece while some of his other works are left far from being fully-researched, among which his Happy Days is. Thereby this essay is dedicated to this two-act play finished in 1961, and its heroine in particular. Happy Days is a play about nothingness, alienation and loneliness. In Happy Days, Beckett tenders to us a wilderness scorched by the sun, reminding us of T.S.Eliot's Wasteland, where lives Winnie, a woman in her fifties, "well preserved and blonde for preference", deprived of mobility and change, buried to her waist in act 1, only able to use her hands and crane her neck and buried to her neck in act 2, only able to move her mouth, eyes and face. Her image of slowly sinking the earth is among Beckett's most powerful ones. Her only human interaction is with her dull, indifferent and self- absorbed husband, Willie, who crawls on the ground a few feet away, at times reading out loud from a yellowing newspaper the same two, three items again and again and most of the time turns a deaf ear to Winnie. Focusing on Winnie, this essay falls into two parts: In the first part the forms of nothingness are divided into three categories; the second part analyzes why I regard Winnie as a nothingness-fighter and her stay against the horror of it.