THE CARETAKER: VEINTICINCO AÑOS DESPUES

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  • Fabian Prieto Diez

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Twenty-five years ago The Caretaker was Pinterls$rst successful stage play, and it is still one of his best. As in many of Pinter's works, this play begins with comic expectations, but from there it moves to a point where the laughs stop.
This paper aims to show how Pinter writes from whithin his characters, his method consisting of thepsychological analysis he is constantly making through their speeches. There has been a great deal of controversy over Pinter's claim that thrre is no message, no content, no hidden meanings beneath the surface of his plays. His most outstanding merit is the way he uses language to outlinepersonalities, language becoming asympton. Thispsychological approachprovides un answer to many of thepuzzling questions raised by his plays, while, at the sume time, presewing and stressing their dreamlike structure and their poetic ambiguity.

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