Political suppression and cruelty : a study in Harold Pinter’s one for the road and mountain language

Abstract EN

Harold Pinter( 1930-2008) is a distinguished British dramatist whose plays win him great fame in the world.

His political views and anti-war attitudes are quite evident in his art.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 .

In his political plays he attempts to uncover the precipice behind the evasive exchanges of everyday life.

His pen penet- rates the oppressors' closed rooms to reveal the ugly truth concerning the use and abuse of power and the violation of human rights .

Pinter has written twenty - nine plays .

two of which -One for the Road , and Mountain Language - are rich with political issues such as oppression, cruelty, murder and violence .

This study is an attempt to explore and examine Pinter's political views concerning the modem Western life in which man might become a victim of cruelty of an institution of some sort.

The study constitutes two parts.

Part 1 deals with the political analysis of One for the Road in which the playwright attacks forcefully the abuse of state power in the world.

Part 11 tackles the political connotations of the Mountain Language.

The study ends with a conclusion which summarizes the w’hole paper and sums up its findings.