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 highlighti...

The article deals with the study of poetics S. Beckett's play “Waiting for Godot”. This original and extremely capacious is minimalistic in form. secret capacity that, through four characters, Beckett showed human race miniature, modeling main types social private relationships: type equality (i.e., self-neighbor relationship) isrepresented by friends Vladimir Estragon, inequality/dependence re...

Empathy is an essential component of professional nursing practice. In order to empathise appropriately with patients, it is crucial that nurses appreciate, understand and respond to their patients' experience of illness. This study sought to explore the experiences of 16 people with end stage renal disease on haemodialysis therapy in Ireland. A hermeneutical phenomenological methodology was em...