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This 3 page paper discusses the way Shakespeare and Pinter use language in their plays "The Tempest" and "The Birthday Party." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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considers two plays that are vastly different, Shakespeares "The Tempest" and "The Birthday Party" by Harold Pinter, and compares the authors use of language. Discussion According to literary critic Michael
Adams, "The Birthday Party" is a play about "paranoia, the inability to communicate, and the search for identity and truth" (Adams). Pinters use of language is essential to creating these
garbled and ineffective communications. The play is "full of the ominous pauses for which Pinter is famous, the breaks emphasizing the banality of the conversations and the uncertainty of the
speakers" (Adams). The dialogue is rapid-fire, comprising a lot of one-liners and sentence fragments; at times the dialogue makes little if any sense, which serves to heighten the fact that
the characters cant connect with each other: " MEG: That boy should be up. Hes late for breakfast. PETEY: There isnt any breakfast. MEG: Yes, but he
doesnt know that (Adams - quoting Pinter) This is a perfect non-sequitur, a conclusion that doesnt logically follow from the facts on which its based. Language is power in
this play in the sense that the intruders, Goldberg and McCann, use words as weapons. They throw so many questions at Stanley (including one that no one can answer, "Why
does the chicken cross the road?") that they might as well be physically beating him. Instead, they have the power in the play because they use the language to overpower
everyone else: "They bombard Stanley with questions, claiming he has both murdered his wife and left his fianc?e at the church. They eventually challenge his right to exist, and Stanley
hits Goldberg" (Adams). The next morning, Stanley wont come down, and Goldberg reports that hes had a nervous breakdown. We have to assume that their constant hammering at him verbally
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