Laughing with Beckett in <i>Waiting for Godot</i> and <i>Endgame</i>

Abstract This paper examines the use of laughter as redemption in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Endgame . By acknowledging somatic life characters, humour problematises un-embodied philosophies life. Challenging Hugh Kenner’s claim that is not redemptive because dryness repetitions involved, it argued foregrounding fragility vulnerability a way expressing deeply humane While highlighting dialectic lack excess one source Beckettian laughter, main thrust argument emphasises possibility transcendence comic situation. The play excess, rather than suspending transcendental redemption, presents human condition its existential mundane realities. Accordingly, visceral repetitive are discussed two plays to bring fore ironic aspect comic, especially scenes where some sort implied.