Different Faces of Violence in Selected Plays of Harold Pinter
Soma Mondal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gobardanga Hindu College Different Faces of Violence in Selected Plays of Harold Pinter In the Preface to his play Lear Edward Bond says, I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent, we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence (iv). Violence has become a part of our life due to various social factors. Violence is of different types: social, political, domestic, sexual, psychological and physical. It is difficult to categorize them clearly as often they overlap. In Pinter’s plays, there is ‘use and abuse of power, the fight for living space, cruelty, terror’ (Esslin, 32). It is hardly possible for Read More …