Landscape: Pinter-ish Characters

Abstract

This paper handles Pinters characters construction in the first one-act play that denotes Pinters second phase of writing, Landscape (1968). The paper hypothesizes that Pinter throughout his second stage of writing has tried to give the impression that the conflict which has been appearing throughout his first stage writing is vital to get full-life characters, and without such conflict, there will be neither protagonist nor antagonist. Character analysis will be adopted as a method of discussion. The discussion concludes that Pinter has used inactive characterization to indicate the idea that conflict is an essential part for life continuation and characters construction.