Read the Audience's Joint Pretence:Language of the Capital in Pinter's THE Dumb waiter and Mount Language

• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 김성제
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제19집 1호, 167~187쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.04.01

영문 초록

Harold Pinter’s early plays foreground the characters’ immediate languages which mirror nothing but the contingent situation. They seem to be empty and absurd. His late plays describe a particular response to a particular situation in which there are political victims. This paper interprets the empty absurdity of The Dumb Waiter through the hindsight of his late political play, Mountain Language. It will suggest a way of symptomatic reading that signifies the audience’s structure of reference and attitude, and help the students to fill in absurd drama and to reflect their habitual perceptions. Pinter mirrors the audience dramatizing their joint pretence. The first problematic reference comes from hisfirst novel and drama The Dwarfs: the joint pretence between the perceiver and the perceived, that makes up our habitual perceptions. The second is the crucial hegemonic operation of the language of the capital in MountainLanguage. The third synthesizes the above two questions: the audiences’s habitual reference and attitude to the hegemonic double bind between assimilation and discrimination of the language of the capital that reproduces political victims. Gus in The Dumb Waiter questions something common but wrong. He plays the role as the double: the executioner and the executed. The play casts the audience who do not question why something wrong becomes common. The audience are invited to play the double: the executioner and the executed.

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The Dumb Waiter Mountain Language joint pretence habitual perception language of the capital double bind, audience