The Birthday Party

by Harold Pinter

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Explore how Pinter's ethnic heritage and his upbringing in a working-class neighborhood of London influenced both his pacifist beliefs and his artistic development.

Examine the impact of Franz Kafka on Pinter's "comedies of menace."

Analyze the style, structure, and techniques of Pinter's The Birthday Party in comparison to Eugene Ionesco's Bald Soprano or Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

Look into Pinter's own reflections on language and silence as significant elements in his early works.

Study the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and consider the possibility that it could be seen as the organization betrayed by Stanley Webber in The Birthday Party.

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