In The Dumb Waiter‚ two hired hitmen‚ Ben and Gus‚ await instructions in a basement for their next assignment. As the conversation between the two progresses‚ we see the juxtaposition between a man who blindly accepts his role (Ben) and another who constantly questions his own (Gus). The light-hearted banter between the two increasingly escalades into tension‚ while repeated mentions of the mysterious ‘Wilson’ who never appears in the play reveal the insidious nature of the organization these two
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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 Dumb Waiter‚ is about power relation‚ and the presence of the discipline power by observation is undeniable in it. Gus and Ben learn they are under the non- verbal gaze of the unseen power that controls their attitudes and behaviours. In a system of total surveillance‚ just a gaze is enough to control‚ dominate others and holds power over them. The mysterious and controlling character‚ Wilson command‚ controls and directs their lives and actions despite the lack of any direct contact. In a power
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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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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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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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especially in contrast with Ben‚ who never goes to the bathroom. Unlike Ben‚ he has no hobbies‚ which accounts for his awareness of his static life. The audience is meant to sympathize with Gus. If one were to read The Dumb Waiter as an allegory of capitalist slavery‚ then Gus is the employee who‚ because life offers him so little‚ recognizes something wrong with the class structure. He sees cracks in the façade of Wilson—he is unafraid to yell and peer up the serving hatch
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TABLE OF CONTENT TABLE OF CONTENT 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 2 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 Project Background 3 1.2 Logical Assumption 6 1.3 Project Objective 6 CHAPTER 2 FEASIBILITY STUDY AND REPORT 7 2.1 Schedule Feasibility 7 2.2 Technical Feasibility 13 2.3 Operational Feasibility 18 2.4 Economical Feasibility 21 CHAPTER 3 FACT FINDING 26 3.1 Interview 28 3.2 Questionnaire 32 3.3 Fact
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