| 摘要: | 本論文探討的是英國劇作家哈洛．品特的三部作品中的人物存在意義、劇中人物角色、日常絮談以及封閉房間裡充滿的危機。《房間》為哈洛•品特的首部劇本,《生日舞會》一劇儘管在演藝評論家給該劇不錯的評價但公眾反應不佳,但品特這些劇的情節往往把一些無傷大雅的情況,逐漸變壞成荒誕的局面,劇中人物行為有時令觀眾甚至劇中其他角色費解,成為品特獨到的寫作手法,因此成為本論文的研究讀本。
This thesis explores three of Harold Pinter’s plays — The Room, The
Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party — in the first three chapters via close readings of some sections of each of these “comedies of menace.” Here the typical Pinter themes/techniques of silence (the Pinter pause), uncertainty, extremely colloquial and sometimes rough or violent speech, enclosure within a confined space, and ambiguity are analyzed and discussed. Then in the fourth chapter the comedy-of-absurd dramatic
techniques and existential themes of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot are discussed and compared with Pinter’s themes and techniques, for Pinter was much influenced by Godot. He was also influenced by Kafka, and in the fifth chapter the Kafkaesque themes and techniques which also remind us of those of Pinter and Beckett are discussed: a man’s “being guilty” though he does not know what his sin or crime was; enclosure within small and unfamiliar spaces; a constant feeling of uncertainty and anxiety; an overriding sense of life’s meaninglessness. Certain ancient mythic and religious themes, such as those related to prophesy, death, the underworld and the (im) possibility of “freedom” or “salvation” that we find in all of these works are also analyzed and compared. |
