Meaninglessness of Language and the Obscene of Communication in Pinter's "the Silence and the Dumb Waiter"

Abstract

This paper deals with Harold Pinter the concept of communication and absurdity of human existence which show us silences and pauses.Harold Pinter has incorporated strategies just like pauses and silences to enable his audience how human being influenced by some obstacles which make him keep silent and nothing to say . Silence not as meaning characters are mute and the reader doesn’t get to listen to the words flying out of their mouths, but a moment which is so full of significations, that the reader fumbles to come to the final rhythmic of the written text. In other words, what might have been construed as silences in Pinter’s works are in fact vocal in their way. Once its saturation to be silent as a result to violence and the impact of war II, one needs to reflect deeply in that moment. And when there is no characters left whose language one can listen, a person has to take an inventory of his reveries. This paper focuses on the manifestation of the fear, uncertainty, menace, or even death to which the characters’ pauses or silence refer to in Pinter’s Silence and The Dumb Waiter. In in other words, it is how those moments of silence define a state of tranquility and how this state led to that of chaos and death