1. How can you apply the Latin expression Esse est percipi to a specific, concrete analysis of Beckett's material? Esse est percipi, or To be is to be seen, is a very profound statement that Beckett seems to use as one of the major themes of his work. dramatic writing. Beckett's collection of shorter plays often have no beginning or end and are good examples of to be is to be seen. Beckett uses the senses in his writings. Using the sense of sight and the sense of hearing, Beckett constructs his characters and thus gives rise to the idea that to be is to be seen. In Happy Days, Beckett created the character Pooh who is trapped and buried in a pile of dirt. Beckett wrote that Winnie was very focused on sight. Throughout the play, Pooh constantly does things that emphasize the act of seeing. She puts on and takes off her glasses, reads the toothpaste tube, reads the brush handle and other similar acts. By seeing each item and reading the writing on it, it justifies its existence and by reading and seeing each item, it exists. His eyes serve as props, open and closed, demonstrating “that one sees the other, the other sees the one” (28). This statement is a very powerful example of each person justifying the other by seeing the other. Without one seeing the other, there is no one to see the one. In this simple statement, Winnie proclaims the very act of existence. Winnie makes many other statements about the act of seeing, during the play, when speaking with her husband Willie, as in "Could you see me, Willie, do you think, from where you are, if you were to lift up your eyes to me […] Lift up your eyes to me” (28). Winnie needs Willie to look at her to verify that she is still there when he sees him, and that he sees her. Being stuck in the same routine of your daily life can be a prison. By sharing this day with someone, even if it's just hearing or being seen, it gives Winnie a reason to keep going and "be." Winnie expresses the feeling of disappearing in the blink of an eye by stating: "Strange feeling that someone is watching me..