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

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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