Volume 08 Issue 01 January 2025
Kadhim Dhahawi Abbass
Directorate General of Education in the Holy Kerbela Teacher of English in the preparatory school of the superiors
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v8-i1-29Google Scholar Download Pdf
ABSTRACT
At the time when we were able to implement the post-war era, we could not afford to use traditional art forms and standards that could not be convincing and their validity was limited, so a new type of theater became required in such circumstances. Therefore, absurd theater came as a response to the turmoil, chaos, and absurdity that people faced in those similar times. Prominent playwright Harold Pinter (1930-2008), depicted the absurdities and difficulties of the modern era in an innovative way. They tried hard to show, in their dramatic treatments, the predicament of lost people who are unable to feel their presence. They feel exhausted and frustrated in a world that deprives them of their humanity, including sex. So in Pinter's plays that present masculine-looking character we find ourselves face to face with mere reflections of the most obvious problems of modern times. More precisely, we are facing characters without gender, or better to say, neutral symbols of the difficulties that man faced in such a predicament. This study deals with the lack of sex in masculine plays in Pinter’s Caretaker.
KEYWORDS:Theater of the Absurd, Harold Pinter, silence, dialogue, plays, interpretation.
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