Caretaker

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter is a play in three acts which describes relationships of three different characters and their desire for dominance over each other. There are three main characters of this play: Aston (kind man who had mental health problems and was fond of handicraft), Davies (homeless elderly man who was kindly invited by Aston to live for some time in his room), and Mick (pragmatic younger brother of Aston who owned the house where described events occurred). These three persons

literary figures of the British playwrights in 1950s and 1960s. Play, The Caretaker brought him immense popularity. Which he wrote in 1959. It involves conflicts among the characters as well as depict the struggle for verbal and territorial dominance. His play was heightened due to use of the pauses and silences. Which portrays the absurdity of language and human identity in his work due to the societal oppression. The play The Caretaker represents the human misery and exertion that troubled people in the

Larkin show the pressures of modern life on the individual In both The Caretaker and Larkin’s Collected Poems, Pinter and Larkin frequently paint their characters to live in a relentless state of fear and anguish caused often by the pressures of the external world. In this critical understanding of both writers, I will explore how the variations of pressures from modern life effecting and potentially harming individuals. The Caretaker and Collected Poems were both written in the 1960’s. The ‘Swinging

The 1990 movie Home Alone may have poked fun at what could happen when an eight-year old boy is accidentally left home alone, yet in reality it is not uncommon for thousands of American children to be left home alone on any given day. Children who are left home alone - sometimes known as "latchkey kids" -- are often left without adult supervision for reasons beyond a parent's control and, in some unfortunate situations, out of neglect or child abuse. For anyone considering whether it is alright

the Mordwahl, before mortals turned their backs on their promises to us. Why should I honor your request?” “I ask, as one insignificant mortal, to one who has the power of life and death, to do that which you know in your heart must be done.” The Caretaker surveyed her before speaking, “Come closer, child.” Larah stepped forward, her heart racing as she stood in front of the imperious-looking form that stood nearly a foot taller. The amber orbs gazed into her eyes and a cold hand caressed her cheek

The Caretaker follows no such structure, with a metaphysical approach that promotes a mystical and confusing mode. Pinter divorces and exposes society's codes, institutions and human relations. Throughout the play the audience is rarely comfortable. This disruption

My First Solo Travel: A Series of Unfortunate Events Tired of friends canceling the last minute, tired of waiting for the right time, tired of promising myself I will travel solo ‘soon’, I got fed up and finally took the plunge into the world of solo travel. So when a long vacation came, I decided to go on a 3-day camping vacation alone. And the destination? The beautiful Masasa beach located on the little island of Tingloy, Batangas. I packed my bags, did my research, informed friends my itinerary

town, amongst the busy sidewalks of Merchant Row, the entrance to the magical land of Falken Dell stands open. Not that anybody can see the darkened sinister gateway at the base of an ancient tree, with its glowing edges. "Who left this open!” the caretaker yells. "This is happening way too often and I'm getting sick of it," he said as he closes the door in frustration. The glowing light blinks out in the shadow of the grotto in the park, made up of hundreds of tree branches forming a makeshift cave

These are the Chora stage, the Abjection stage and the Narcissistic stage. The Chora stage covers the first six months of an infant’s life. It is a pre-linguistic stage where the infant is dominated by a chaotic mixture of acuities, feelings and needs. It is also a stage when the infant is oblivious about the need to distinguish itself from its mother or the world around and is fully dependent on its mother for the gratification of its desires. This stage is followed by the stage of Abjection which

Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party is a play which sheds light on the pathology of abjection and violence both physical and verbal and its effect on its victim - Stanley- the protagonist of the play. Stanley is an artist who has isolated himself from a totalitarian state or organization for reasons left undisclosed in the play by Pinter. Since Pinter as a Jew grew up during the time of the Holocaust and the Second World War, Stanley seems to represent the author’s existential anxiety. It can be assumed