Harold Pinter

Harold and Maude (1971, dir. Hal Ashby) is a twisted, yet effective radical romantic comedy that I enjoyed. The film is filled with strange suicidal scenes, dark elements, a few heart-warming moments, good laughs, and taboos that challenged cultural ideologies of the time period. I placed this film as a radical romantic comedy for a few main reasons: an ending that feels satisfying without the characters ending up together, a quest for peace by the main characters, the jettison of cultural rules…

‘Labour government had more successes than failures in domestic affairs in the years 1964 to 1970’. Assess the validity of this view. Firstly, In my personal opinion I do not think there were significantly more successes than failures in terms of domestic policy for the Labour governments between 1964 to 1970. The liberal domestic reforms were led by the competent home secretary, Roy Jenkins, through his backing, the Labour governments passed important liberalising laws; such as the Abortion…

“The day in the life of the Cracker Barrel Waitress” Arlington, Texas - Three servers from the local Cracker Barrel know all the tips and tricks to getting the best tips and staying on top of the game when it comes to serving. Angelique Ochoa has been a server for just under a year and believe that it is her bubbling personality that gives her the edge in getting tips from her customers. “If you are rude to them and act like you don’t care about the customers, I guarantee that you would be…

and how to express well through book, film, and performance and writers get to know and learn writing technique such as the theater of the absurd, Pinteresque, and more. Therefore, I think this play is worth learning for learning deeply about Harold Pinter, his work and his writing…

Relations in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal Introduction: Power Relations Arising from Ambiguities “A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false” (p. 11); this was how Harold Pinter (1977) expounded the role of art in exploring reality in the Introduction to his collection of works. More than forty years later, Pinter repeated this quote as he began his acceptance speech of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobel Media AB, 2005) and elaborated on this. Pinter specified…

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…

Through the play The Dumb Waiter, Pinter wants to convey that everyone is prone to death. No one is safe in this world. The two hit-men Ben and Gus are waiting for their victim whom they are to kill. They have been paid for the work. But they are unaware of the fact that one of them is the victim. Though Ben and Gus are partners, yet someone has used and employed Ben to kill his own partner – Gus; and this remains a secret with them until the last moment. Gus who, until the last, plays the role…

Human Animalistic Instincts and Aggression “Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves, or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it.” In this quote by Jim Butcher, animals are depicted as creatures who live to guard their possessions because they have to. Human beings adhere similar qualities to animalistic behaviors. Animals must be hostile or hold violent behaviors or attitudes toward another ready to…

Samuel Beckett, who similarly used theatrical silence and long amplified pauses for a innovative effect, heavily influences Harold Pinter’s work. The objective of this essay is to define ‘Silences’ and Pinter’s uses of pauses as a theatrical technique used in the form of non verbal communication between characters of Ben and Gus in Pinter’s, The Dumb Waiter. His plays can be studied on various levels of in depth readings. The sheer complexity of his work is what conveys these different diverse…

onto when reading The Fall, readers are, in a sense, forced to accept the idea of a subjective reality. No Man’s Land, a play written by Harold Pinter, further explores the theme of reality and it’s relationship to existentialism. Two men in their sixties, Hirst and Spooner, are talking in Hirst’s living room. They have just met at a bar. They are both drinking, which is evident from the somewhat choppy dialogue. The encounter seems choppy as well. At first the two men seem like strangers but…