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    WORLD OF HAROLD PINTER

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    Q. 2. Write a note on the World of Harold Pinter. Answer Each of Harold Pinter’s [first] four plays ends in the virtual annihilation of an individual. In Pinter’s first play‚ The Room‚ after a blind Negro is kicked into inertness‚ the heroine‚ Rose‚ is suddenly stirken with blindness. In The Dump Waiter‚ the curtain falls as Gus and his prospective murderer stare at each other. Stanley Webber‚ the hero of The Birthday Party‚ is taken from his refuge for ’special treatment’. In The Caretaker‚ the

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    The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter is a play composed of three acts‚ and is set in an old boarding house‚ run by Meg and Petey‚ who are a couple in their late sixties. There is only one boarder‚ Stanley‚ a scruffy‚ depressed-looking man in his late thirties who has apparently been a professional pianist. Three people arrive in the boarding house from the outside world: Lulu‚ a young woman who tries to get Stanley to go out with her with out success‚ Goldberg a powerful and threatening Jewish man

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    Theatrical features of the birthday party The birthday party considered as one of the greatest Pinter’s work which reflect his own rules and features of his own drama. Perhaps Pinter is very different from other absurdist writers as the Irish Samuel Becket and Inesco.but in anyhow I can assume that the theatre of the absurd as called by Martin Essllin has witnessed some other themes and set of ideas that makes it relevant .This is partly as a results of Pinter’s style of writing ; he does

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    Harold Pinter: Independent and critical to the last The World Socialist Web Site has commented several times on playwright Harold Pinter‚ who died last week aged 78. He was a courageous and consistent voice of opposition to the military policies of British and American imperialism. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 2005‚ to his credit‚ not a single party leader in Britain congratulated him on it. Pinter’s opposition to their criminal policies in Iraq and the Balkans

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    Pinter Essay There has been speculation over whether Pinter’s later plays are a departure from the more metaphorical explorations of power to being more openly political‚ or whether his plays have been political from the beginning. This progression from the metaphorical power games can be seen in “The Homecoming”‚ written in 1967‚ and “One for the road”‚ written in 1984. In the exposition of “The Homecoming” the play could be mistaken as apolitical but its exploration of gender politics makes

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    In Harold Pinter ’s "The Homecoming" one of the important themes is power. Many of the characters try to exert power. Many of the characters try to exert power over others through various means such as sexuality and intelligence. The use of violence within the household is believed by the men to be the most important tool of power. However‚ when Ruth‚ the only woman in the play‚ enters‚ she appears to defeat the men ’s power‚ but not with violence. Her sexuality and apparent intelligence become part

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    messages‚ characters and storylines involved in the novels and plays they wrote. For instance‚ Harold Pinter uses his theatre of absurd writing style to demonstrate part of his life story through two of his plays‚ The Homecoming and The Caretaker. In these plays the characters are confined to one room as a way to face what society expects everyone to act like. Even like the characters in his plays‚ Harold Pinter had to seclude himself from society in order for him to understand the unrealistic‚ pointless

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    Chapter One 1.1. Background : Harold Pinter occupies a very significant position in the contemporary British theatre. He is a dramatist‚ scriptwriter‚ short story writer‚ director‚ and actor and in his later plays‚ he has become a political voice of Human Rights issues. He is considered the most respected writer for the stage in the world today. He was born in a Jewish family on October 10-1930 at Hackney‚ in London’s East End‚ an area with a Jewish population. This working-

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    The Homecoming

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    The Homecoming – Review The play is mean‚ funny‚ dark‚ 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

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    Homecoming

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    HOMECOMING: A SPARK TO REKINDLE THE FIRE FOR THE PLAYOFFS! The YHS homecoming football game proved to be an Semotional and rewarding time. A great number of alumni and other outside friends and family were there to support the Yorktown Huskers bring home the win! The Crop‚ along with the YHS band and the returning 1996 Champions‚ gave the team the energy it needed to push through Greeley’s defense‚ stopping their offence like a wall. It was a day for the Huskers to show Horace Greeley their

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