Absurdity in Harold Pinter’s The Room (1957) and The Birthday Party (1958)

Abstract

The Theatre of the Absurd is considered to be one of the most important movements in the history of dramatic literature for its non conventional form and content. It’s raising throughout European countries namely France, Germany and England. The most important characteristic in Absurd drama is that its form and content is design in a way to reflect the theme of absurdity in the sense that Harold Pinter make the form and contend chaotic and messed .Harold Pinter is one of the most famous absurdist writers, he employs language and isolation in absurd way in order to portray human condition in his wider modern sense , Pinter employs an absurd language in a most dramatic ways as vehicle and instrument of dramatic action words become weapons in the mouths of Pinter’s characters. Harold Pinter tackles another point in his playwright, which is isolation. He uses a different technique such as a repetition, pauses, non-sequitur, silence and dialogues in order to represent isolation, characters isolate themselves in order to run off from the outside which represent a menace for them.