the birthday party scene
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Name :- Pritiba B. Gohil Roll No. :- 21 Course No. 9 :- The Modernist Literature
Presentation Topic :- The Birthday Party Scene
Enrolment No :- PG 14101016 M.A. English Semester - 3Batch Year :- 2014 - 2016 Submitted to :- Department of EnglishMaharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Interrogation
scene
Comedy&
Menace
Mystery &
Ambiguity
Silence&
Pause
PowerTransformation
language
Verbal Violence
To Physical
Violence
Why did you kill your wife?Why did you never get married?Webber ! why did you change your name?Is the number 846 possible or necessary?Why don’t you pay rent?What about Ireland?Why did the chicken cross the road?Chicken?Egg?which came first?What makes you to think you exist?
Comedy & Menace
Verbal Violence to Physical Violence
A. Act stars with verbal violence and Ends with physical violence
B. Stanley, Humiliated and degraded by the two tormentors
C. A bit of violence
1. Stanley kicks Goldberg in the stomach 2. McCann hits Stanley
Language Why did you kill your wife?
Why did you never get married?
Webber ! why did you change your name?
Is the number 846 possible or necessary?
Why don’t you pay rent?
What about Ireland?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Chicken?Egg?which came first?
What makes you to think you exist?
Unlocks secrets
Creates ambiguity
Contradictory
Irrational
GB: When did you come to this place? Stanley: Last yearGB: where did you come from?Stanley: somewhere elseGB: why did you come here?”Stanley: my feet hurt!!!GB:wher did you stay?Stanley: I had headache!!GB: did you take anything for it?Stanley: yesGB: what? Stanley: Fruit salts! GB: Enos or Andrews
Comedy
8
Power Transformation
Goldberg To
Stanley
Stanley To
Goldberg & McCann
Silence & Pause
Non-verbal Devices
Why it’s used?
Stanley’s Birthday
Party
He denies for it
Game : Blind Man’s Buff
Darkness in the room
Lulu’s cries
Lulu’s Rape
Build up of terror, violence
Throws light on the character
Blind Man's bluff: it’s outcome
Moral degradation
Symbolism :- Breaking of spectacle
Beating of drum
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