The Birthday Party

         This post is in response the worksheet on The Birthday Partyhttp://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2013/09/worksheet-film-screening-harold-pinters.html   

              Harold Pinter’s play centre’s on the life of the main protagonist Stanley Webber, an unemployed pianist, who, for the last year, has been living as a lodger with Meg and Petey in their boarding house. Stanley is living in inactive away from the outside world. However, the relatively peaceful, domestic atmosphere of the boarding house is disturbed by the imposition of two unknown characters, Goldberg and McCann. The two men are “agents” of an “organization” and have come to claim Stanley. The characters in the play previous to the arrival of Goldberg and McCann are described very dangerously. 

              Beside in the play the nature of language and dialogue is also central to the theme of menace in The Birthday Party .The Birthday Party, it may advise the absurdity of the human condition, for Stanley, like all of mankind feels unsure of himself and unsafe without certainties in his universe. Stanley, like mankind, is fearful that what lies beyond the limits of his comfortable environment is threatening and aggressive.