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PAGE PAGE 11Academic Year ThesisTHE ABSURDITY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS OF PINTER’S THE BIRTHDAY PARTYBy Yuan YuweiEnglish and American Literature Renmin University of ChinaAdvisor: Professor Xie Jiangnan November 28, 2012摘要：哈罗德品特是20世纪最伟大的戏剧家，2005年的诺贝尔文学奖颁给了他，认为“他的剧作发现了掩盖于日常闲聊下的深刻之处，并强行打开了压抑者关闭的房间。”品特的戏剧属于荒诞派，无论在故事情节，表现手法还是剧本语言上都深深带有品特式的荒诞特征。生日宴会是品特早期的一部重要作品，集中体现了他的荒诞特点，本文通过对生日宴会的故事，语言，写作手法等方面的荒谬性进行分析，进而得出荒诞背后所体现出后工业化时代西方社会信仰缺失，礼崩乐坏的混乱局面以及生活于其中的人们的不安和恐惧。这正是品特戏剧引起共鸣，发人深省之处。关键词：矛盾，语言，悲喜剧，荒诞Abstract: Harold Pinter is the greatest Playwright in the 20th century who received the Nobel Prize in 2005 with the award words: in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppressions closed rooms. Pinter is one of the important representatives of the theater of absurdity with his works fully embodying its characteristics in plots, artistic features and language. The Birthday Party is one of the most important plays in Pinter’s early career, which gives full expression to the absurdity. This thesis is an analysis of the ridiculousness as shown in the story, language and writing techniques etc.of this play and behind all the absurdity, an exploration of the faithless and chaotic conditon behind of the western world in the post-industrial era and the uneasiness and terror of people living in it. That’s how Pinter stikes a responsive chord in the hearts of the audience and makes them do an introspection of their own life.Key Words: Paradox, Language, Tragicomedy, Absurdity1.IntroductionThe Birthday Party is Pinter’s best play of Pinter in his early career as a playwright. It is this play that lays the keynote of absurdity for him, by which he is classified as one member of the absurd theatre. The ridiculousness is seen everywhere in the Birthday Party: characters act and speak in an illogical and self-contradictory way; the relationship between them is complex and confusing; the whole