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| Article Name : | | | THE MENACE OF THE UNKNOWN: RE-READING HAROLD PINTER’S THE BIRTHDAY PARTY | | Author Name : | | | Tanmoy Baghira | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4904 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | After the two world wars men were unable to come out of its horrors and disillusionment. The war which was glorified sooner brings forth total confusion and disorderly situation which none can avoid. This era therefore gives birth to a number of dramatists who constructs The Theatre of Absurd. Pinter’s early plays are often been attributed as ‘comedy of menace’ due to their superficial fun, and inherent menacing, verbal violence, erotic fantasy, obsession jealousy, family hatred and mental disturbance in terms of wordless language. Language plays an important part in constructing the meaning of any text; it simultaneously can voice or silence any issues it is dealing with. Pinter problematizes the use of language in his several plays. His dramas often involve strong conflicts among ambivalent characters who struggle for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own versions of the past. My intention in this paper is to identify how the motif of menace is actualized through verbal violence, uncertain past of characters and sudden, unexpected drop from a comic surface to an underlying seriousness and uncanny. | | Keywords : | | |
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