Saturday, 21 September 2019

The Birthday party pre task

. Harold Pinter the man and his works
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Harold Pinter born in 1930 , English play-wright,known for his so- called comedies of tenance,which humorously and cynically depict people attempting to communicate as they react to an invasion on that of an invasion of their lives.He is also noted for his unique use of dialogues.Which exposes his characters alienation from each other and explores the layers meaning produced by pauses and silence.As a child Pinter got an well with his mother but not well with his father.
The Room originally written for Bristol university's drama department was finished in four days.The Birthday party was first performed by Bristol university drama department in 1957 and produced in 1958 in the West End.

.Comedy of menace:whose plays are known so? Who termed it? What are its peculiar characteristics? How is it different from Absurd Theatre!
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Comedy of menace is a term used to describe the plays of David campton and Harold Pinter by drama critic Irving waffle,borrowed from the subtitle of Cameron's play TheLunatic view.A comedy menace,and comedies of menace caught on and have been used generally in advertisements and in critical accounts.
The Birthday party the comedy of menace is a tragedy with a number of comic elements.It is a comedy,which also produces an overwhelming tragic effect.

. Explain ' pinteresque' Pinter pause and use of silence,in the play.a particular atmosphere and environment in drama.
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Pinter pause- one of the two silence- when Pinter's stage directions indicate pause and silence when his characters are not speaking at all has become a'trademark' of Pinter's dialogue and known as the Pinter pause .There are two silences.One when no word is spoken.The other when perhaps a torrent of language is being employed.
The atmosphere of menace - is also created by Pinter's ability to drop suddenly from a high comic level to one of deep seriousness.

.The  Birthday party an allegory of artist in exile and other interpreting
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Somebody with unconcealed lifestyle.Artist are different for the society.
Psychological Reading- Goldberg and Macann represent past of Stanley's own sub conscious mind
Spiritual reading
Stanley as soul trying to get free from the cage of body.Nat and Sermon are agents of Death or social ritualists who washes the body before burying and thus liberating the soul.

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