Katurian

The relations between art and life is explored throughout Martin McDonagh’s play, The Pillowman and Muriel Spark’s Loitering With Intent. They explore these relations through discussing the stylistic features of their characters and how these characters are perceived in real life. Both authors explore how the preconceived ideas of what a character should be is dismantled and the line which distinguishes between art and life is becoming less clear. Another way in which these authors explore the link

the actions and behaviour that the police officer’s observation affects the way the characters perceive themselves. Katurian in The Pillowman and the homeless, Anita, Sasha and Flea, in Antigone in New York represent the act of storytelling as a way to escape their realities. Storytelling examines the influence from the past to represent the problems of the present, in which Katurian tells stories as a form of confession while Sasha, Anita and Flea seek to resolve the disappearance o Paulie. As a

forest. Any place names mentioned in the play are a mixture of Eastern European and references. (Pilný, 2006). As with Beckett’s work, the length of action in The Pillowman seems to be equal with the overall length of the play. The play begins with Katurian being interrogated on a Monday evening and ends with him being shot to death approximately two hours later. (McDonagh, 2003). The action of the main plot is enhanced by scenes of the past (in the form of Katurian’s stories) and also references to

Journal 8: Edinborough/With New Understandings from the Lake District and Lady Gregory’s Place “It isn 't about being or not being dead, it 's about what you leave behind” Katurian, The Pillowman After saying these words, Katurian goes on to say if the police officers said they would burn two of the three things, his brother, himself or his writing, he would chose to have his brother burned first, and him charred second and “it would be the stories I would save.” His brother, Michael, does not understand

nuances of Blackburn 's argument in mind when doing our analysis. Now that Blackburn 's ethical stance on the badness of death has been established, we can begin our analysis of McDonagh 's The Pillowman. In his play, Mcdonagh 's main character, Katurian, tells the story of the Pillowman. He is a man whose job it is to seek out adults ready to commit