Betrayal

The most significant dramatic device used in Harold Pinter's Betrayal is his use of reverse chronological order. Of course this is not the traditional way a play or story unfolds, so his choice...

Betrayal by Harold Pinter has a unique style which allows the audience to reflect on the effects of bad decisions made years before. He commences his play after the three main characters have...

Memory plays an important role in Harold Pinter’s play, especially in regard to the innovative temporal structure he employs. The characters review significant events that occurred earlier in their...

In some respects Betrayal represented a departure for Harold Pinter, in that it seems to be more in the realist vein than his earlier plays. In a classic love-triangle story, the characters’...

The play Betrayal by Harold Pinter is not an example of either psychoanalytic or feminist drama. In terms of genre, Pinter is sometimes loosely associated with a school known as the "Angry Young...

Betrayal has both internal and external conflicts. Harold Pinter’s play centers on a love triangle that goes on for decades. The three individuals are constantly moving in and out of intimacy and...

On one level, Betrayal can be thought of as a love story. Love is at the center of the various adulterous relationships that take place throughout the play, even though such illicit liaisons...

In the first scene in the play, Emma says that Robert has betrayed her with multiple other women for years. Emma, Robert's wife, meets with Jerry, Robert's best friend, in 1977. She tells him that...

Betrayal is structured as a series of vignettes “progressing” from the 1977 present back to 1968, when Jerry and Emma’s affair began. The reverse chronology is not fluid, as some scenes arc...

Harold Pinter's play Betrayal is perhaps the first major example of a narrative portrayed in reverse chronological time. The Christopher Nolan film Memento uses this same storytelling conceit, as a...

One of Harold Pinter's later plays, Betrayal has striking similarities to his early works as well as several distinctive features. His dramas have darkly comedic undertones created by the...

Harold Pinter's 1978 drama Betrayal and William Shakespeare's 1598 comedy Much Ado About Nothing would seem at first glance not to have very much in common, and this is generally true. Although...