The Impossibility of Verifying Reality in Harold Pinter‟s Old Times
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| Title | The Impossibility of Verifying Reality in Harold Pinter‟s Old Times |
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| Abstract | This study is an attempt to show the unreachable depth of reality in Pinter’s Old Times. Pinterian dramatic dialogue proceeds deliberately through a serpentine terrain with scattered boulders of disturbing, menacing questions-without-answers, leading invariably to further awkward repetitions, pleonasms, non-squiturs, gaps and potholes of uneasy pauses and of heavily loaded silences. In Old Times, it has been brilliantly dramatized that the distinction between real and unreal or true and false can hardly be determined with certainty. What, therefore, Pinter projects is not an imitation of reality, but a theatrical extension of reality. Conversations that take place in a Pinter’s play are quite different from those of real life. Pinterian actors require a specialized know-how for putting in exact theatrical expression to the sub-textual language. The study further tries to show that behind the expressed vocabulary, there looms large the unexpressed hidden territory. The characters must probe beneath the apparent, to get at the inner stream of images—horizontally, vertically, diagonally. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2011-05-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 1, No 5 (2011) |
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