Artistic duality in martin McDoagh's the Pillowman

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To be a writer in the contemporary age, that becomes so much complicated, puts a responsibility on the behalf of this writer to reflect and find a solution to some of the complications in this world.

Martin McDonagh finds his own way to depict the terrifying reality of the world where a lot of gruesome crimes are committed.

In The Pillowman, the playwright presents a series of horrible murders whose victims are children.

The play is filled with a lot of literary and actual performed scenes that present the murders against those children.

The Pillowman is about Katurian, a writer, who is suspected as being a real killer of a series of children’s murders because those murders are done according to his stories.

However, the policemen abuse him literary and physically despite the fact that he is only a suspect.

Later on, they find that his brain-damaged brother, Michal, is the real murderer.

The play ends with one of the policemen shooting Katurian for lying to them.