Even such a basic analysis of the title already directs our attention to the relation between the style of the play and modern trends in art, such as abstract and conceptual painting. The omission of the article indicates that the topic is the idea of betrayal, its generalized or abstracted structure, and not the story of one particular instance of betrayal.
This lack is especially noticeable in the context of many other Pinter titles that carry the definite article, such as The Room, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Dumb Waiter, The Collection, The Lover and The Homecoming, as well as A Slight Ache, with its indefinite article. 2The first thing to notice about Betrayal is its title: a rather startling abstract noun that appears without either a definite or an indefinite article. In this paper, I will analyze the play as an experiment in abstraction, a presentation of human relationships in terms of game sequences, and a post-modern, aesthetic and ironic treatment of what used to belong to religion and ethics. The characters’ incessant search for meaning is shared by the reade r/spectator but is deflected, through the sophisticated formal shaping elements employed by Pinter, from the ethical to the aesthetic sphere. The chronological reversal is instrumental to this general shake-up of the dramatic form and style.
Now that the initial excitement about the daring time-reversal of its plot has settled down, the artistic contours of the work can be seen more clearly: the supremacy of its abstract shape over its narrative content, its position on the relevance of time to memory, its dispassionate, ironic tone, and its deliberate avoidance of a moral stance. Although many excellent analyses of Betrayal appeared soon after the play was first produced, we have today gained enough distance from it to justify its re-evaluation. Get betrayal harold pinter script PDF file for free from our online library.ġ In the near twenty years since Betrayal was written the play has become something of a classic, made accessible to ever-increasing audiences by the film version with the superb Patricia Hodge, Ben Kingsley and Jeremy Irons. Read Online Now betrayal harold pinter script Ebook PDF at our Library.
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