Pinter Plays The Tragic Spirit

This research paper focuses on the works of Harold Pinter who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and who initiates a great challenge and transformation to in dramatic language, action and characters. Based on his early plays of menace, memory plays and politics plays, the author reclassifies the plays as social, individual and language tragedies.The essay deals profoundly with his famous "room" plays such as the Room, the Dumb Waiter etc. by means of text reading, expounds the theme of menace, anxiety and violence to interpret the social and individual tragedies embodied in the plays and analyzes his distinct use of language. Pinter is an expert at relating his language to the psychological reality and weakening the function of transmission of language through cross-talk, chatter self-talk, pause and silence to disclose the delicate relationship between the invisible struggle and conflict. Taking advantage of the dull and boring daily life as language sources, Pinter constructs a unique kingdom in dramatic field.In chapter one the author briefly organizes the ideas of tragedy and modern tragedy and the spirits of modern tragedy. Chapter two analyzes the different stages of his works. Based on the text reading the author in chapter three mainly focuses on the elements of social tragedy such as menace and conflict etc. Chapter four is on the account of the individual tragedy from the perspective of elements of sense of loss and loneliness. His distinct language use is analyzed in chapter five. Through the above analysis, in chapter six the author gives her understanding of the tragic spirits embodied in the works which includes Pinter's deep consideration and concern of human life and the deconstruction of traditional tragedies.