Harold Pinters Monologue: Form Explains Meaning

Abstract

It is not for nothing that the core of drama (from the Latin word dranto do) is action Pinters Monologue is a drama which is bare of or of little action The man appears alone on the stage to open and close the play So lonely he is torn between his selfesteem and company so he chooses monologue. The aim of this study as a result is to shed light on this technique: the dramatic monologue (one-sided speech) as a means of illustrating this apartness. The monologist is addressing not uncaring silent listener but an empty chair. This loneliness which is suggested by the choice of the title itself= moves from the private level to struggle to the form itself: the form explains the content. Hence it requires a fresh vision a fresh way of seeing both this play and this technique dramatic monologue which frames its theme and the question with which it leaves the audience.