The birthday party by harold pinter full text pdf

Lulu accuses Stanley of spending the entire day inside the house: Don't you ever go out? He does not answer. I mean, what do you do, just sit around the house like this all day long? Hasn't Mrs Boles got enough to do without having you under her feet all day long?

But the reader immediately gets the impression that Stanley is someone who has barricaded himself in the room upstairs. Even he is cut off from the rest of the denizens of the house, Meg and Petey. He has thrown himself to a corner to avoid the world outside. Whether there are chances for success or not, one must face the alien world against all hopes.

Meg asks Petey if it was dark when he was out in the morning. Her repetitive questions reflect that Meg does not know well about the winter in Britain. She is unaware of what is happening outside. Stanley, too, prefers to stay inside at home. Meg protects him from the external threats as a child in her womb. He becomes apprehensive when he is informed of the imminent arrival of the two gentlemen in the house.

Goldberg and McCann operate as the agents of that invasion. The limited space of home considered to be a refuge from the vicious, outer world is shattered by them menacingly. Pinter insists that the absurdity of life cannot be explained as there is no chain of cause and effect. In such a kafaesque kind of circumstance a character can no longer react logically or rationally to what is going on.

And the mode of language in which the characters communicate become elusive, absurd and insufficient. Still it can easily be perceived that the language underscores the complex inner psychology of the character.

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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. He always remains an outsider. He is not able to adjust. He not only becomes the element of disharmony.

He complains to McCann that he is missing his home. Back home. I'll stay there too, this time. No place like home. He creates his past which is full of loopholes. He says that he wants to move away from the current lodging. But the moment he sees some change coming his way, he panics.

He has settled like a parasite onto the host tree. The coming of Goldberg and Mc Cann signalled the change and so Stanley tries his best not to let them enter. But Stanley fails. In this situation of domestic conflict and discord, Goldberg and McCann come as the Saviours or terminators.

They come to save the domestic space of Meg and Petey. Stanley is put on trial for his 'crimes' and sentenced by Goldberg and McCann. Why are you getting in everybody's way? Why are you getting on everybody's wick? Why are you driving that old lady off her cork? Why do you force that old man out to play chess?

Goldberg and McCann take Stanley away from the domestic space. The element of discord is removed from the domestic fabric.