Key Themes Of The Pillowman

Both The Pillowman, written by Martin McDonagh and Loitering with Intent, written by Muriel Spark open up and explore the relations between art and life. They do this by presenting the argument that the characters of a text, are just that, characters. The protagonists in these texts, Fleur and Katurian refuse to see the link between the characters of their texts and real life events occurring around them. However, it is clear that one of the key themes in both of these texts is that everyone has a story to tell which suggests that life in itself is a form of art. Henry James argues in his work The Art of Fiction that “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life” Despite this being a fair analysis