Lucknow Journal of Humanities
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

Pinter, the nobel playwright: Themes and concerns

  • Author:
  • Nupur Tandon
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 9 to 13

Department of Humanities, Malaviya National Institute of Technology (Deemed University), Jaipur.

Her important publication is “Communication Skills”, Jaipur-2002, India.

Abstract

The 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature recognizes the greatness of Harold Pinter ‘who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms’. Pinter's plays transport us to claustrophobic rooms in which dwell his characters, seemingly drifting in no well-definede direction, speaking a language apparently as unintelligible as it is unrelated to what is happening; a fact that reinforces Pinter's basic tenet that not every given fact can be or indeed is verifiable. Physical violence as well as verbal torture are other themes that reverberate in his plays. Of late, Pinter has also taken up such issues as incarceration, imprisonment and the tyranny of the strong. His plays, however, remain poetic, subtle and thought-provoking, providing an insight into the depths of the human psyche.