Deception and betrayal in harold pinter's the dwarfs

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This paper aims at showing the devastating deception that surrounding the characters in Pinter's play The Dwarfs.

The Dwarfs as a play is very unintelligible on stage as Pinter himself admitted in one of the interviews saying that the staging of the play was “regretted by everyone except me to do The Dwarfs which is apparently the very intractable and impossible piece of work.

It is basically a play that illustrates the deep and vivid sense of betrayal, deception, illusion and love.

The conflicting problem imposes betrayal as shown in Len's goals and objectives, the central character of the play.

Human suffering arising from the sense of failure and frustration of man's search for love, friends and belonging.

The Dwarfs explores the theme of deception and frustration arising from a betrayal of friendship in which the protagonist's hopes for genuine human contact are shattered by the deception and duplicity of the same proposed friends.

The main theme of The Dwarfs is the frustration arising from a betrayal of friendship.

The protagonist's hopes for genuine human contact are shattered by the duplicity and betrayal of friends.

Even superficial ties of contact are missing.

The play stresses lack of possibility of genuine friendship in a world of shifting affiliation, allegiance and betrayal.

This paper aims at showing the devastating deception that surrounding the characters in Pinter's play The Dwarfs.

The Dwarfs as a play is very unintelligible on stage as Pinter himself admitted in one of the interviews saying that the staging of the play was “regretted by everyone except me to do The Dwarfs which is apparently the very intractable and impossible piece of work.

It is basically a play that illustrates the deep and vivid sense of betrayal, deception, illusion and love.

The conflicting problem imposes betrayal as shown in Len's goals and objectives, the central character of the play.

Human suffering arising from the sense of failure and frustration of man's search for love, friends and belonging.

The Dwarfs explores the theme of deception and frustration arising from a betrayal of friendship in which the protagonist's hopes for genuine human contact are shattered by the deception and duplicity of the same proposed friends.

The main theme of The Dwarfs is the frustration arising from a betrayal of friendship.

The protagonist's hopes for genuine human contact are shattered by the duplicity and betrayal of friends.

Even superficial ties of contact are missing.

The play stresses lack of possibility of genuine friendship in a world of shifting affiliation, allegiance and betrayal.