Скачать или смотреть Verbal Warfare in The Birthday Party Sem 2 P110A

Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party (1958) is a landmark of modern drama, where language is not a tool of clarity but of confusion, dominance, and fear. This presentation explores how Pinter transforms dialogue into a battlefield, where words conceal as much as they reveal.

The play’s unsettling atmosphere is built through pauses, silences, and linguistic ambiguity that shift power between characters. Through verbal games, evasive answers, and sudden outbursts, Pinter demonstrates how speech becomes a weapon—undermining identity, asserting control, and destabilizing reality.

🔹 Key Focus Areas:

Language as manipulation, not communication

Pauses, silences, and ambiguity as dramatic techniques

Goldberg and McCann’s interrogation of Stanley as an example of linguistic violence

Pinter’s critique of authority, conformity, and individual resistance

How “Pinteresque” dialogue reshapes our understanding of theatre

✨ This analysis shows why The Birthday Party remains one of the most chilling examples of modern drama—where words do not liberate but entrap.

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