Time, Waiting, and Entrapment in Samuel Beckett
Dr. Akram Shalghin

Abstract
This paper deals with the question of time and entrapment in three of Samuel Beckett’s plays: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy days. The characters in these plays are restricted by the limitations, and nature, of their positions, their capabilities and availabilities. Their dreams, fancies, desires, wishes, and nostalgia for the past of which the audiences, or readers, have no knowledge provide striking reminders of the harsh realities in which they live. Thus their desires, hopes, and intentions to do something establish a kind of self-condolence by which they would gain mental stamina to carry on.

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