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The Birthday Party
After
watching movie the Birthday party I can say that it is a play
depicting the modern rootlessness of man, who is wandering with no origin and
no destination. As in many absurdist works ‘The Birthday Party’ is full of
disjointed information that defies efforts to distinguish between reality and
illusion.
Further we can
also say that Pinter takes Beckett's theatrical world, developing a new comedic
style to reflect the chaos and insecurity of the world stuck by the two world
wars. Pinter is credited with the invention of a new dramatic style known as 'Comedy
of menace' which is an offshoot of the seminal 'Theater of Absurd’. So
at first I would like to describe what that is so it (Comedy of Menace) is a
kind of psychological drama in which supposedly secure space is contested by
characters who are the embodiments of each other fears, insecurities or latent
sexuality.
It is a kind of comedy in which laughter in
some or all situations is accompanied by some impending disaster. The comedy
frightens and unsettles. The Absurd in Pinter's plays comes from menace. Some
of the many features of Comedy of menace can be summed up as, plausibility of
hidden danger, apparent normality, a sense of impending disaster, use of irony where communication is useless,
surrealistic confusion that obscure or distort facts, use of place that is
violated by outsiders. Menace and fear are not external elements as Pinter
opines
"They
do not come from extraordinary, sinister people, but from you and me, it is all
a matter of circumstances"
So at last it can be said that the
Birthday Party is a comedy of Menace.
Therefore these are my interpretations
about The Birthday Party.
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