The Birthday Party

‘The Birthday Party Scene’

Name: Saryu D. BaraiyaSubject: The Modernist Literature [Paper – IX]Roll No: 25Study: M.A.Year: Semester- IIISubmitted to: Department of EnglishUniversity: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

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‘The Birthday Party Scene’

Harold Pinter

Born: 10th October, 1930 Profession: Play writer, Screenwriter, Actor, Theater director, Poet Nationality: British Nobel Prize winner in 2005 His Most Famous works: No Man’s Land, The Birthday Party, Betrayal, His career begin with the play, ‘The Room’ Died: 24th December, 2008

‘The Birthday Party Scene’

‘The Birthday Party Scene’

Actual ‘The Birthday Party’

‘The Birthday Party Scene’

The Modern play The absurd play First performed: 28th April, 1958 Three Acts:

Act - I

Act - II

Act - III

‘The Birthday Party Scene’

Characters in ‘Act – II’:

Stanley Webber Meg Boles Petey Boles Lulu Goldberg McCann

‘The Birthday Party Scene’

Stanley’s Birthday party

Stanley denies for it

Game: ‘Blind men’s buff’

Darkness in the room

Lulu’s cries

Lulu’s rape

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