Reviews on The Birthday Party

Link of worksheet

http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2013/09/worksheet-film-screening-harold-pinters.html


The Birthday Party:

As per my reading I give my reviews about The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party is a full-length play which was written by Harold Pinter, who wrote this masterpiece as it highlights The Comedy of Menace, which is coined by Irving Wardle, who borrowed it from the subtitle of Campton’s play ‘The lunatic view: A comedy of menace’ and theatre of absurd by martin Esslin.It includes such features as the fluidity and ambiguity of time, place and identity and the disintegration of the language.so we can say that The Birthday Party present deeply political play about the individuals imperative need for resistance.
 Apparently, The Birthday party is a conventional play set in a boarding house run by Meg and Petey where Stanley Webber, a musician, is the sole occupant. Stanley, a shabby looking man in his late 30's is hinted to have a sexual relation with her landlady Meg.
 In spite of a traditional three act division, a simple plot, the play opens up to absurdity when the reader seeks reason behind the actions and is not provided for. This is exactly where the play becomes both menacing and disturbing leaving readers and audience delving into the possibilities of interpretations that may transpire. Pinter had once said
"I think we communicate only too well in our silence, in what is unsaid”.
 For Pinter language that people use in life is an attempt to cover up or evade the truth. The Birthday Party is a dramatization of this horror, of never being able to come clean from the smoke screen of words, the horror of continual evasion, of desperate attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves, the  horror when communication becomes too alarming. Language in Pinter's plays is a deception.