The Birthday Party ;Themes and symbols

Theme and Symbols:

1) Abuserdity:

The term "absurd" was originally used by Albert Camus in his 1942 essay “Myth of Sisyphus,” wherein he described the human condition as “meaningless and absurd.” Albert Camus “Myth of Sisyphus”. The absurd in these plays takes the form of man’s reaction to a world apparently without meaning ,and or man as a puppet controlled by invisible outsider. In almost every character we find a kind of disappointment and complain from life. Meg keeps on running meaningless conversations like “how is cornflakes ?” or “didn’t you enjoy your breakfast ?”etc. It is perhaps to fill the emptiness within her.

2)Violence and cruelty :

In the birthday party full of violence, both physical and emotion ,overall suggesting that violence is fact of life. Stanley is cruel and violent towards but, much more afraid against other man. Much of the violence in the play concern women.Stanley not only intimidates Meg verbally,but he also prepare to assault Lulu. Finally,the threat of violence is ever-present in the play.

3)Sex

Sexual tension is present throughout the entire play, and it results in tragic consequences. Meg and Stanley have a strange, possible sexual relationship that frees him to treat her very cruelly. The ugliness of his behavior is echoed when Goldberg calls him a “mother defiler” and “a lecher.”

In fact, Goldberg suggests that Stanley's unnamed sin involves his poor treatment of a woman. Lulu seems interested in Stanley as well, but is quickly attracted to Goldberg in Act II. Her innocence makes her prey to men's sexuality. Her openness leads to two consecutive sexual assaults, and yet she is nevertheless upset to learn that Goldberg is leaving.

All in all, it is a strange, perverse undercurrent throughout the play - sex is acknowledged as a fact of life, and yet does not ever reveal positive aspects of the characters.

#Symbols:

1)Mirror

• Shows what we want to see about our self .an illusionary image.

• Shows self reflection to character what we are.

• In beginning of the movie ,camera focuses on mirror of the car, and through this we see what is passing by.

2)Newspaper

• Obstacle in communication.

• Petey is reading in the beginning .we can read that behind newspaper he is hiding his impotency.

• Later on this newspaper was torn into pieces by Maccan,which represent that Maccan himself is broken inside like these torn pieces of newspaper.

3).window and Toy-Drum

• Stanley as an artist but someone is destroying it at last.

• Window is symbolizes Hope of escape but it is meaningless

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