Harold Pinter was born in London on 10th October 1930. He spent his childhood in Hackney, a multi-cultural working class neighbourhood in London's East End where mostly Jewish people lived. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Pinter was evacuated from the city; he did not return to London until he was fourteen. He recalls: On the day I got back to London, in 1944, I saw the first flying bomb. I was in the street and I saw it come over….There were times when I would open our back door and find our garden in flames. Our house never burned, but we had to evacuate several times. Every time we evacuated, I took my cricket bat with me. ()
Pinter's lost childhood is exemplified by his innocent desire to take his cricket bat with him each time his family was evacuated from their home. In Miriam Gross's interview, "Pinter on Pinter," Pinter states that, "I felt very strongly about the war. And still do,….After all, I wasn't a child by the time it ended; though I was when it began." () In 1948, upon reaching draft age, Pinter declared himself a conscientious objector. He later explained: “I was aware of the suffering and of the horror of war, …show more content…
He uncovers the precipice under every prattle and forces entry into the oppression’s closed doors . . .” (Wastberg). This citation appropriately projects the true and politics as asserted in his Nobel lecture entitled, “Art, Truth and Politics.” Had “Art, Truth & Politics” been nothing more than an attack on Mr. George Bush and Mr. Tony Blair, it would already be forgotten. But Pinter, in his lecture makes a more specific argument that has direct relevance to his work. In his Nobel lecture, Pinter voices his ideology as a citizen and the other as a playwright. He starts his lecture explaining the politicization of truth in the contemporary
Pinter's lost childhood is exemplified by his innocent desire to take his cricket bat with him each time his family was evacuated from their home. In Miriam Gross's interview, "Pinter on Pinter," Pinter states that, "I felt very strongly about the war. And still do,….After all, I wasn't a child by the time it ended; though I was when it began." () In 1948, upon reaching draft age, Pinter declared himself a conscientious objector. He later explained: “I was aware of the suffering and of the horror of war, …show more content…
He uncovers the precipice under every prattle and forces entry into the oppression’s closed doors . . .” (Wastberg). This citation appropriately projects the true and politics as asserted in his Nobel lecture entitled, “Art, Truth and Politics.” Had “Art, Truth & Politics” been nothing more than an attack on Mr. George Bush and Mr. Tony Blair, it would already be forgotten. But Pinter, in his lecture makes a more specific argument that has direct relevance to his work. In his Nobel lecture, Pinter voices his ideology as a citizen and the other as a playwright. He starts his lecture explaining the politicization of truth in the contemporary