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The Psychoanalytic Strategies in the Plays of Harold Pinter | Original Article

Akhtar Alam*, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

Harold Pinter, a playwright whose originality was so compelling that it has brought into the lexicon the term Pinteresque, to describe an atmosphere of expectation, where real characters speak unrealistically, or inconsequentially, as people actually do in everyday life. He evoked that atmosphere of dread simply by having his stage protagonists engage in conversational repetitiveness and seeming irrationally, served up as objects of interest in and by them. This paper shows the art of game and role playing that Pinter to explain the true appearance of human existence and situation. These concepts emphasize the fear lurking just around the corner, the sense of menace that is prevalent due to an impending threat.