Abstract This paper discusses the ways of communication of two characters Ben and Gus in Harold Pinter’s play‚ dumb waiter. Ben and Gus are two assassins awaiting the arrival of their next victim in a dank basement. The pair inhabits a pantomimic parody of world where nothing is ever accomplished through their dialogue. As a result they talk‚ but they don’t communicate. This paper examines four kinds of their communication and the violence and menace underneath it. It also explores the concept of
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disturbing‚ and mysterious. It sabotages the family by recognizing it as the perfect unit for delivery of pain and humiliation‚ the perfect power field on which to destroy or infantilize one’s opponents (who are all the other family members). In early Pinter‚ say up through 1965 when The Homecoming was first performed in London‚ the turf war reigns supreme. Here we have a large home in unfashionable North London‚ inhabited by four men: Max (brilliant played by McShane)‚ the aging aggressive patriarch;
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Högskolan Dalarna English D Literature Essay Supervisor: Elin Holmsten Harold Pinter: A Night Out A Study in the Political Connotations And the Abuse of Power Autumn 2006 Layla Bseiso 810904T007 Trapplan 2E 79137 Falun 0738307252 h06laybs@du.se Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 1 Verbal Abuse ....................................................................
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“Betrayal” by Harold Pinter 1975 Scene Three (FULL VERSION). Flat. Winter. JERRY and EMMA. (Silence) JERRY What do you want to do then? (Pause) EMMA I don’t quite know what we’re doing‚ any more‚ that’s all. JERRY Mmnn (Pause) EMMA I mean‚ this flat… JERRY Yes. EMMA Can you actually remember when we were last here? JERRY In the summer‚ wasn’t it? EMMA Well‚ was it? JERRY I know it seems – EMMA It was the beginning of September. JERRY Well‚ that’s summer‚ isn’t it? EMMA It
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the play is ambiguous’ (Innes) Discuss this assessment of ‘The Caretaker’ When I saw the Caretaker‚ I told Pinter I knew what it meant‚ “It’s about the God of the Old Testament‚ the God of the New‚ and Humanity‚ isn’t it?”. Pinter replied‚ “No Terry‚ it’s about a caretaker and two brothers”. With this quote Terence Rattigan succinctly highlights the absolute ambiguity of Harold Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’; in this story of two brothers and an elderly derelict in close quarters‚ everything that
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Request Stop Harold Pinter Harold Pinter was an English playwright‚ screenwriter ‚ actor‚ theatre director and poet. He was of the most influential and imitated of modern British dramatists. Pinter’s writing career spanned over 50 years. Pinter’s dramas often involve strong conflicts between ambivalent characters who struggle for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own versions of the past. Stylistically‚ his works are marked by theatrical pauses and silences‚ irony and menace.
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The Homecoming: Theme of Power Introduction: Harold Pinter was born in the 1930s and lived through both World War 1 and World War 2. The decade in which the story was written and first staged is important to its interpretation. The 1960s was a decade in which women’s liberation was a prominent movement. Movies and art reflected it‚ protests were made and bras burned. The Homecoming was written during this period and the entire plot line seems a tennis match of power between the sexes. Theme of
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arguments with his younger self from the recording of his 39th year. Krapp ends the play by listening again to the same clip heard throughout the play about the lost love. Watching Harold Pinter in Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape‚” I became more than a bit depressed. Beckett’s character is played tremendously by Pinter. He encompasses the dismal feeling of Krapp: using perfect facial expressions and mannerisms to portray a
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Write a comparison between ’Richard III’ by William Shakespeare and ’The Homecoming’ by Harold Pinter To introduce‚ the extract taken from the play ’Richard III’‚ is scene Act 1 Scene 2. It can be considered one of the many iconic scenes in Shakespeare’s ’Richard III’; and arguable one of‚ if not‚ the most iconic for its importance in showing the power of influence displayed by Richard over Lady Anne. Whereas‚ in ’The Homecoming’ this scene is between Ruth (the wife of Teddy) and Lenny (Teddy’s
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assumptions and values of western history. “There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal‚ nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.” – Harold Pinter Harold Pinter states a postmodern reality can be perceived differently‚ that there may not be only one way of viewing things. Postmodernism begins in 1968 in Paris‚ when college students and professors joined workers and revolted against repressive French
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