illusions on a Greek island. The French Lieutenant’s Woman‚ a love story with a fractured narrative structure‚ became his most renowned work. The book was also the basis for a hit movie released in 1981‚ for which British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay. Fowles earned a reputation as a postmodernist for his use of experimental literary techniques. One constant theme in his work is the issue of free will versus societal constraints‚ including the conventions placed on traditional
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a meeting in order to review the latest forecast figures of fiscal year 2002. 1 When he arrived at the plant‚ the meeting was ready to begin. Others in attendance at the meeting were James Fairday‚ plant manager; Joan Peterson‚ controller; and Harold Pinter‚ personnel officer. John started the meeting by reviewing the latest situation: “I’ve just returned from our annual sales meeting and I think we lost more sales last year than we thought‚ due to back-order conditions at the factory. We have also
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FIGHT THE POWER Maladjusment‚ n. – a failure to meet the demands of society‚ usually reflected in emotional instability Is it a bad thing in a sociaty like this one‚ in particular? This world order‚ which explicitly treats women as weaker and less valuable than man‚ other races as weaker and less valuable then whites‚ poor as weaker and less valuable than rich‚ ironically calls itself democracy. They might call it democracy. They might call it equality. But we? We want THE TRUTH.
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ABSURDISM IN MODERN LITERATURE[pic] Absurdism is often linked to Existentialism‚ the philosophical movement associated with Jean Pual Satre and Albert Camus‚ among others. Although both existentialists and absurdists are concerned with the senselessness of the human condition‚ the way this concern is expressed differs. The philosophers explored the irrational nature of human existence within the rational and logical framework of conventional philosophical thought. The Absurdists‚ however‚ abondoned
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‘What can be meant by living in the dark’: The Construction of Self-hood‚ Fantasy and Desire in Harold Pinter’s Night‚ Landscape and Silence This dissertation will examine Harold Pinter’s plays‚ Night‚ Silence and Landscape‚ through a Freudian lens. Looking at the psychological motivations that lead into the character’s alienated existences. I will examine and explore the biological drives and instincts that lead the characters to construct identities and invent realities in which they seek
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your face‚ and overstated. I haven’t been reading much lately‚ but I like authors like Hawthorne‚ Melville‚ Thoreau‚ Poe‚ and Hemmingway. Among the Brits‚ there’s Robert Louis Stevenson‚ and Arthur Conan Doyle. My favorite playwright is Harold Pinter. His stuff is so weird‚ but poignant. One of the last books I began to read was Fleming’s Casino Royale. I ought to finish
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An essay of Soldier’s Home Whenever soldiers return from war‚ after years in service‚ it is often very difficult for them to adapt and function in society‚ in addition to that it is also hard for the environment and family to understand and give the right support to returned soldiers. This is also the case in “Soldier’s Home”. “Soldier’s Home” is a short story written by the award winning American writer Ernest Hemingway. The story was published in 1925. It is a social and realistic short story
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French Lieutenant ’s Woman is a 1981 film of historical fiction‚ contrasting present day relationships‚ morality and industry with that of the Victorian era in the 1850s. It is an adaptation of a novel by John Fowles‚ the script was written by Harold Pinter. The setting is in England‚ Lyme and London specifically‚ where Charles‚ a Darwinian scientist is courting the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The film depicts Charles as somewhat of the laughingstock with the rich citizens of Lyme who
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THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD The dictionary meaning of the word ‘Absurd’ is unreasonable‚ ridiculous or funny. But it is used in a somewhat different sense when we speak of the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’‚ or more commonly known now-a-days as ‘Absurd Drama’. The phrase ‘The Theatre of the Absurd’ was coined by the critic Martin Esslin‚ who made it the title of his book on the same subject‚ published in 1961. Esslin points out in this book that there is no such thing as a regular
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Tragedy in the Modern Age: A Short Note Arpan Adhikary The genre of tragedy as a form of dramatic art developed in the ancient Greece out of the ritualistic performances in the honour of the pagan deity Dionysus. Aristotle formulated his theory of tragedy on basis of the plays composed by the then Greek tragedians like Aeschylus‚ Euripides and Sophocles‚ and he regarded these plays as the most comprehensive instances of this genre. Plays by Roman tragedian Seneca‚ and those by such Elizabethan
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