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Although in much of Beckett's work there is a large focus on relationships of all kinds as well as marital I will be focussing heavily on Beckett's dramatic works, for both the stage and radio. I will concentrate on the relationships between Willie and Winnie in Happy Days using their minimal dialogue as well as their 'scorchedand simple'4 surroundings to evaluate whether or not there is a clear or discrete demonstration of hopefulness amongst the hopelessness Beckett creates within his married characters. Not only this but I will be using Henry and Ada from Embers to distinguish the small amount of hope within what seems to be an impossible love. I will be able to decipher or not whether there is hope within the love, or if not, what Beckett is implying if, for these characters, the impossibility and futility overpowers the hope in love. Taking into account the moments of silence between the couple in comparison to the speech in the play as well as the ambiguity of the speech and the place in which it is set. Looking closely at the way in which communication, both physically and verbally, between the couples could reveal the small hope in which is beneath the primarily futile relationships, I will be able to present the idea that hope could potentially be possible amongst the impossibility and futility Beckett places his characters into. I will be studying the way the characters are used on the stage in their surroundings, as well as the differences in how Beckett creates these impossible situations through separate mediums of stage and Radio. The ideas presented will be reinforced with the conclusions of Theodore W. Adorno in order to aid the answering of my question and underpin my findings. .
I am able to transfer Adorno's theory that; meaninglessness has a sense of meaning, due to the fact alone that it is meaningless, to my ideas that Beckett's portrayal of the meaningless and impossibility in love can show there is potential for the marital relationship in Happy Days and Embers.