Pinter's Drama of the Absurd And the Theme of Isolation and Loneliness

Landscape and Silence

Abstract

The prime objective of this research is to study the theme of isolation and loneliness in Pinter's Landscape and Silence ; supposing that these two plays typify Pinter's drama of the Absurd , and the theme of isolation and loneliness.
The research surveys briefly the philosophy of Existentialism as a basic ground for the intellectual phase of the Theatre of the Absurd.
The analysis of these two plays shows apparently the essential features of the Theatre of the Absurd both in form and content. It also elucidates how the theme of isolation and loneliness is treated by Pinter in a very skillful dramaturgy.
The research concludes that the Theatre of the Absurd reflects man's mind in the west and his intellectual labyrinth, due to materialism and the highly sophisticated worldly life.
The research also comes to conclusion that Pinter's drama represents a great step towards more matured intellectual drama; and to prove that Pinter has his own distinguished stagecraft that puts him among the leading figures of the twentieth-century western dramatists.