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The Versatile Language of Absurd World in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party

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  • Ahmad Ali Al-Daire

    (Independent Researcher, Jordan)

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Pinter writes The Birthday Party in an absurd dead language, but he does not exclude the compassions, love, kindness, menace and good manners. It is known that absurdity is a philosophical concept that refers to individual’s attempt to find reason in this life, which is thwarted by human limited constraints where the existence has no meaning. Pinter through his versatile language, does not exclude compassionate sense in an absurd drama. He does not exclude how to sympathize with Stanly by audience as an oppressed person. Meg shows well-mannered towards Stanly in spite of hardships of absurd language and behaviors. Pinter consolidates human actions in one drama through artistic language in an absurd drama. Language plays the role of hero to imitates the chaos of human beings. Absurdity is dominant in everything and everyone, even language and life itself nowadays.

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  • Ahmad Ali Al-Daire, 2025. "The Versatile Language of Absurd World in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party," International Journal of Literature Studies, Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development, vol. 5(5), pages 10-14, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:alk:ijls00:v:5:y:2025:i:5:id:11375
    DOI: 10.32996/ijts.2025.5.5.2
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