Happy Days Ppt

Happy Days is an absurdist play by the Irish playwright. Here is a brief synopsis and analysis of the existential themes present in the enigmatic work.
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Samuel Beckett's humorously dark andambiguous play, Happy Days, takes the idea of optimism to an extreme level. In the wake of impending death, the main character Winnie still believes that happy d ays are still ahead for her.
** Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in bothEnglish and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.
* Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influentialwriters of the 20th century.Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists. As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of thefirst postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd". His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career.
* Beckett was awarded the 1969 NobelPrize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".He was elected  Saoi of  Aos dána in 1984.
A Dark and AmbiguousPlay
The play unfolds rather loosely as we are introduced to Winnie, a middle-aged, happy-go-lucky woman buried up to her waist in sand. The "How" and "Why" she is in this situation remains unknownand is left up to the reader's imagination. Winnie goes about her normal routine rituals. She brushes her teeth, reaches into her bag for miscellaneous items, and makes herself pretty by applyingmakeup.
Throughout the first act, Winnie always holds a high sense of optimism in her state of paralysis. She states how it is "another happy day with the sun shining." She remarks on the loveliness...