This undergraduate thesis researches elements of existentialist philosophy in the plays of Samuel Beckett, particularly in Endgame and Happy Days. For Becketts works which are categorized as the theatre of the absurd, the main characteristics are the reduction and deconstruction of time, space, action and above all the dramatic text itself. In the works of Samuel Beckett the ideas of existential philosophers and dramatists like Sartre and Camus can be recognized. This thesis will carry out an analysis of themes like the pain of existence, despair, suffering, anguish, loneliness, the power of choice and freedom and death in Becketts plays.
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