Harold Pinter’s Celebration:Alterity and Public Level

Abstract

This paper tackles the concept of alterity and the relation with the other in Harold Pinters last written playCelebration(2000) The paper hypothesizes that Pinter combines modernism and postmodernism in his plays by using modernist and postmodernist characters together and he has implied that the private level predisposed the public one. The paper divides the characters in a Pinter play into modernist limited controlled and postmodernist controlled controlling characters. The paper takes the character analysis as a method of discussion Using the concept of alterity as the German philosopherEmanuel Livenas puts it will help understand the construction of each of the aforementioned characters The paper is limited to Pinters Celebration as a representative of his final stage of writing The paper ends with the conclusion that sums up the results that support the previously put hypothesis