Play: The Birthday Party



‘The Birthday Party’ is written by Harold Pinter in 1957.  Major characters are Petey, Meg, Stanley, Goldberg, Mccann, Lulu, etc. Trivial aspect of shown by Pinter. One side we laugh and other side sometimes we feel that this character is n bad situation and we have kind for that person. Master-slave morality, silence-pause technique, torrent of dialogues, symbol of toy-drum and interrogation scene these all things are connected with one another. Sometimes we may feel that what’s going on the stage because it is very difficult to understand the deep thinking process of characters. Backgrounds of characters were not clearly shown by Pinter.

 One boarding house and in this house husband-wife named Petey and Meg lived and with that people one thirty years old Stanley also stayed. He is a piano-maker and artist. One time Petey is reading newspaper and Meg listened to him and asked so many questions about regular events. Once time Meg told Stanley that two persons are come here and at that time Stanley was very fearful about it. Here Pinter puts the effect of fear into the mind of Stanley about strangers. And then they two, Goldberg and Mccann come and treated Stanley as a servant or slave. Meg arranges one birthday party for Stanley but here one surprise is that he doesn’t know about it. Toy-drum given by Meg to Stanley and this gift bring Lulu. Very harshly toy-drum beating by Stanley and this shows his mental status.  When party is going on at that time Lulu and Meg, they both are seduced by Stanley because at time light is suddenly off. And then spectacle of Stanley breaks down by Goldberg and Mccann, when blind man’s bluff game going on, so here Stanley’s vision failed.

What I learnt from this play?


According to my point of view here art failed because Stanley’s vision is failed. Why Goldberg and Mccann come? Why they treated Stanley as a servant? And most effective question is why Stanley tolerates them? Here I can also see the effect of colonialism that they behave with this way to Stanley. Stanley used as a one object or medium but at the end he is clean-shavened and wear good clothes but it is not matter because he already treated as inferior. 

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