Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (1961) clearly portrays a lack of communication among the characters of the play which refers to the condition of modern man. This failure of communication led Samuel Beckett to use a lot of pauses and silences in all plays written instead of using words. To express the bewilderment of the modern man during the 20^th century, Beckett adopts the use of no language strategy in the dramatic works. After World War II, people were without hope, religion, food, jobs, homes, or even countries. Beckett gave them a voice. He used a dramatic language out of everyday things, in which silence was part of the syntax as a poetic repetition. Language is no more important to the modern man; instead, he us

الاحتفال عام 1999، هي واحدة من المسرحيات السياسية المؤثرة لهارولد بنتر وفيها ينتقد الناس الذين من المفترض أن يكونوا قوات حفظ السلام، ويسميهم بنتر في المسرحية (مستشارو الاستراتيجية)، ويرعون شؤون الآخرين المهمة لأنهم يمثلون السلطة، في حين ان بنتر صورهم في هذه المسرحية كأناس يتكلمون عن أشياء تافهة ولا يهتمون بحالات القمع السياسي، والفقر، وغيرها من القضايا الهامة للناس في العالم. وعلاوة على ذلك، لم يكن لديهم أي

Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker(1959) clearly portrays a lack of communication among the characters of the play which refers to the condition of modern man. This failure of communication led Harold Pinter to use a lot of pauses and silences in all the plays he wrote instead of words. Samuel Beckett preceded Pinter in doing so in his plays and one way to express the bewilderment of modern man during the 20^th century is through the use of no language in the dramatic works. Language is no more important to modern man; instead, he uses silence to express his feelings. Silence is more powerful than the words themselves. That’s why long and short pauses can be seen throughout all Pinter’s plays.

In this play, th

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