Katurian

personal responses to McDonagh’s work, including: The Pillowman and Hangmen. The Pillowman was written to shock, and shock it did. Initially, I was very shocked at Ariel and Tupolski’s initial treatment of Katurian when he first enters the interrogation room, leading to feelings of sympathy for Katurian. Tupolski and Ariel were especially harsh when Ariel says: “We can’t even

According to this conversation, Ariel and Katurian both are victim and at the same time hero who did divine violence against their parents and murdering them by holding a pillow over their faces and justifying it as self-defense. Not only they are not guilty anymore, but also they will be considered the same as a hero who have killed their parents to save others. Because Katurian believes he has killed his own parents to save his brother from physical torture and himself from psychological torture

The notion of art and life is addressed through both novels looking at the role of the characters and what they should or should not mean to the reader. Both Fleur and Katurian argue that the characters in their own written works are just characters in a book. This is most evident in Loitering With Intent when Fleur explains to Dottie that “Marjorie is fiction, she doesn’t exist” . This comes at the point when Dottie is overthinking the characters in Fleur’s novel Warrender Chase and attempting to

they find that it doesn't work, they introduce another interrogation technique. They decide to “question” his brother. At first, Katurian is worried that his brother is going to get beat up which signifies that it is working but the detective eludes Katurian’s demands. The detective later distracts him by saying that he’s not an animal then goes back into questioning Katurian. He's asked him about his stories and if they had themes to them in an attempt to trap him into admitting that he provoked the

(anon). So, if you were given the chance to sacrifice yourself for others, would you? Like in the play “The Pillowman” by Martin Mcdonagh we as readers see the sacrifices the main character Katurian and his brother

did not know that could work out, because of how the playwright specifically mentioned two brothers. As I read through the script, I would wondered how challenging it was going to be for Katurian one of the leads to take the brutal beatings. These are such brutal beatings that the detectives would be giving Katurian; everything from kicking to choking. When we received the scripts, and had our read through. I noticed that all the directions were crossed out. So we blocked the entire show by the words

genre, and repetition, the conceit becomes evident. Katurian Katurian, is the Pillowman In most plays, and works of literature in general, character descriptions appear, and paint a picture for the reader of what the character, or actor should look like.

is full of difficulties, people try to get spiritual solace and relaxation by exposure to art. Thus, plenty of scripts were formed to discuss how people look upon the nature of art. In The Pillowman written by Martin McDonagh, the main character, Katurian creates lots of impressive stories as the only treasure he left after he died. In the movie The Legend of 1900 directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, the leading character “1900” dedicates all his talent and passion to music art within his short life. In

as torture when the Tupolski and Ariel interrogate Katurian to expose his identity through his stories. The push of storytelling as torture becomes a central focus when the use of language and words direct a physical and psychological control against the characters. Therefore, storytelling illustrates a form of brainwashing. In addition, Katurian uses storytelling to comfort for his brother Michal, but the stories are used against him when

What’s more, it is not only Katurian and his brother that are subjected to acts of physical violence but also the police officers Ariel and Tupolski. When this is revealed, Ariel and Tupolski become both the executors of subjective and systemic violence but also the victims that act out their own traumatic experiences. So, by this dialogue very soon it is clear that Ariel as one of the detectives was physically and sexually abused as a child and is also represented by Katurian when asks him: “And who