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A 5 page character analysis of Winnie in Samuel Beckett's infamous play entitled 'Happy Days.' The writer feels that she represented the self-transgression of loneliness and the mundane emptiness that life can have. Several quotes from the play are used to support this thesis.
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seeks consummation of such yearning in her apparently-injured spouse, Willie. Throughout the course of the play, we see Winnie slip deeper into a frenzy-like, almost desperate state in which
she clings to every utterance that Willie makes-- praising him for the happiness that his sounds bring to her. Beckett was evidently making a sad statement
about the repetitiveness of life and its potential for routine and boredom. Throughout the course of the play, we witness two days in the life of this couple, divided
appropriately into two acts. Rather bleakly, days are described in Becketts play as beginning with the "wake bell" and as concluding with the "sleep bell." Everything that takes place
between those two "bells" is empty. Winnie spends her day talking, Willie spends his day in a trance-like state; maybe listening to her..but maybe not listening to her at
all. Occasionally, he utters a word and for this, Winnie declares that it is a "happy day" after all. In fact, it -2- seems only through
some interaction with Willie that the estranged woman is even able to describe a day as being "happy" at all. It is with this realization that
the direction of Winnies loneliness becomes clear. Willie is, as far as we can see, the only person in her life. She desperately seeks human interaction. In
fact, she wants it so badly that she talks incessantly, carrying the entire play in what almost constitutes a monologue. But Willie is non-responsive; he will not give her
back what she wants. As we realize that conversation with Willie is utterly futile, we begin to understand certain things about the "love" depicted
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