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Optimism in Samuel Beckett�s Waiting for Godot

Jemima Daniel

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is an image of human condition and it is concerned with the theme of survival. The playwright wants to communicate the problematic nature of man’s situation in the world. Beckett’s plays are not pessimistic even though they deal with the disillusionment and despair of the modern world. What Beckett tries to communicate is not one of despair but of courage and hope to face the human condition as it is , with all its mystery. There is no cause for despondency and despair. Man should face the realities of life and he need not feel disheartened at his suffering and misery. To laugh at our own misery is the only way of coming to terms with it. This paper is an attempt to explain how the theme of exsistence is dealt with by the dramatist in his Waiting for Godot