Worksheet: Film Screening - Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party
This is my response to the worksheet of the play The Birthday Party
Worksheet: Film Screening - Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party
Answers:
The Birthday party is play written by Harold Pinter. In this
play we find meaninglessness and absurdity and also Pinter has given painteresque effect. In this
play there is main character Stanley Webber who is piano player plays important role. There are also other
characters but and Pinter has not given much information about the background
of the characters.
It is a second full length play and considered best known
and most frequently full length play.
And known as the comedy of menace and also theatre
of absurd play. In this play we find such features as the fluidity and
ambiguity of time, place and identity and disintegration of language.
In the beginning of the play we see there is dialogue between
Petey and Meg about the newspaper and here we find absurdity of the characters
and writer’s use of language.
PETEY Yes
MEG Is it good?
PETEY Not bad.
MEG What does it say?
PETEY Nothing much.
In this play we find that Stanley who lives in the boarding
house and Meg and Petey run that house. In this play and it is about that there
are two sinister strangers namely Goldberg and McCann, who goes in the birthday
party of Stanley arranged by Meg. At that time Stanley denies and says that,
“This isn’t my Birthday, Meg”.
So this play tells about the way it deals with the absurdity
and meaninglessness.
Thank you..
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