Absurdism in Three of the Pinter's Plays 'The Room,' 'The Birthday Party,' and 'The Dumb Waiter'
| Autor: | LIEN,PEI-CHUN, 連珮淳 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 104 This thesis explores three of Harold Pinter’s plays — The Room, The Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party — in the first three chapters via close readings of some sections of each of these “comedies of menace.” Here the typical Pinter themes/techniques of silence (the Pinter pause), uncertainty, extremely colloquial and sometimes rough or violent speech, enclosure within a confined space, and ambiguity are analyzed and discussed. Then in the fourth chapter the comedy-of-absurd dramatic techniques and existential themes of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot are discussed and compared with Pinter’s themes and techniques, for Pinter was much influenced by Godot. He was also influenced by Kafka, and in the fifth chapter the Kafkaesque themes and techniques which also remind us of those of Pinter and Beckett are discussed: a man’s “being guilty” though he does not know what his sin or crime was; enclosure within small and unfamiliar spaces; a constant feeling of uncertainty and anxiety; an overriding sense of life’s meaninglessness. Certain ancient mythic and religious themes, such as those related to prophesy, death, the underworld and the (im) possibility of “freedom” or “salvation” that we find in all of these works are also analyzed and compared. |
| Databáze: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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