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The document summarizes the play "The Birthday Party" by Harold Pinter. It focuses on the central character Stanley Webber, a man in his 30s living in a boarding house in London. Stanley displays odd behavior such as playing with a toy drum and has a relationship with Meg, a piano player. During the birthday party, two mysterious men named Goldberg and McCann arrive, blame Stanley for unknown reasons, and try to rape another woman named Lulu.
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DH Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, and writer known for his novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. He spent his early life in a mining town in Nottinghamshire, which influenced his works. Lawrence wrote almost 800 poems in addition to his novels. Despite his declining health, he continued writing until his death from tuberculosis at age 44 in France in 1930.
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The document summarizes the character of Meg Boles from Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party. Meg is the childless wife of Petey, who is in her sixties. She treats their tenant, Stanley Webber, like a surrogate child and is planning a party for his birthday. Meg's character can be compared to the character of Mother Courage from Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children.
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John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright who rose to fame and produced six influential plays between 1903-1909. He was the most esteemed playwright of the Irish literary renaissance. Synge won a scholarship for advanced study at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and began writing poetry in 1892. His major works included "In the Shadow of the Glen" produced in 1903 and "Riders to the Sea" written in 1901 but unpublished until later. Synge unfortunately passed away on March 24, 1909 at a young age, leaving only six plays but making a large impact.
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This document discusses the use of verbal and non-verbal linguistic devices in Harold Pinter's play "The Birthday Party". It provides background on Pinter and an overview of the plot of the play. The document then analyzes several specific linguistic devices used in the play, including repetition in dialogue, lack of cohesion/coherence in interrogations, and use of pauses/silences. It concludes that while Pinter's dialogue sounds natural, it is actually highly stylized and tightly controlled to create dramatic effect.
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Letras /Língua Inglesa
Teoria Literária
Discente: Maisa Franco dos Santos
Docente: Juliana Salvadori
Semestre: 2015.2
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The document summarizes the play "The Birthday Party" by Harold Pinter. It focuses on the central character Stanley Webber, a man in his 30s living in a boarding house in London. Stanley displays odd behavior such as playing with a toy drum and has a relationship with Meg, a piano player. During the birthday party, two mysterious men named Goldberg and McCann arrive, blame Stanley for unknown reasons, and try to rape another woman named Lulu.
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DH Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, and writer known for his novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. He spent his early life in a mining town in Nottinghamshire, which influenced his works. Lawrence wrote almost 800 poems in addition to his novels. Despite his declining health, he continued writing until his death from tuberculosis at age 44 in France in 1930.
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The document summarizes the character of Meg Boles from Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party. Meg is the childless wife of Petey, who is in her sixties. She treats their tenant, Stanley Webber, like a surrogate child and is planning a party for his birthday. Meg's character can be compared to the character of Mother Courage from Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children.
J M Synge
John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright who rose to fame and produced six influential plays between 1903-1909. He was the most esteemed playwright of the Irish literary renaissance. Synge won a scholarship for advanced study at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and began writing poetry in 1892. His major works included "In the Shadow of the Glen" produced in 1903 and "Riders to the Sea" written in 1901 but unpublished until later. Synge unfortunately passed away on March 24, 1909 at a young age, leaving only six plays but making a large impact.
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D.H. Lawrence was a 20th century English novelist, poet, and literary critic born in 1885 in Nottinghamshire, England. He came from a working-class background which influenced his writing. Lawrence was known for his controversial works that openly explored topics of sex and his criticism of modern industrial society. Some of his most famous works include Sons and Lovers (1913) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). Lawrence traveled extensively throughout Europe, Australia, and North America with his wife Frieda due to being exiled from England after their marriage. He died of tuberculosis in France in 1930.
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This document discusses the use of verbal and non-verbal linguistic devices in Harold Pinter's play "The Birthday Party". It provides background on Pinter and an overview of the plot of the play. The document then analyzes several specific linguistic devices used in the play, including repetition in dialogue, lack of cohesion/coherence in interrogations, and use of pauses/silences. It concludes that while Pinter's dialogue sounds natural, it is actually highly stylized and tightly controlled to create dramatic effect.
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2) It references Breughel's painting of Icarus, where despite Icarus drowning after his wings melt, a ploughman continues working and a ship sails on, indifferent to his suffering.
3) The poem's tone suggests that we often fail to notice extraordinary or awful events happening around us, while caught up in our ordinary lives, and we should work to open our eyes to these things.
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1) The story is framed as a narrative told by Marlow to other men aboard a boat on the Thames in London. Marlow recounts his experience traveling into the Congo to meet Kurtz, an agent for a trading company.
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This document provides a biography and overview of author D.H. Lawrence. It discusses his themes of love, sex, and cultural decay explored in his novels and poetry. It then analyzes his short story "The Odour of Chrysanthemums" which examines the failure of communication and understanding between a mining wife, Elizabeth, and her husband. After her husband's death, Elizabeth reflects on their disconnected marriage where they never truly knew each other. The story illustrates Lawrence's views on the importance of intimacy and acknowledging others' humanity in relationships.
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This document provides summaries of several novels and works of literature from the early 20th century in London:
1. It summarizes Joseph Conrad's 1904 novel Nostromo, set in a fictional South American country.
2. It briefly describes D.H. Lawrence's 1915 novel The Rainbow, which focuses on family dynamics and sexuality.
3. It summarizes Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, set in a dystopian future London.
The Birthday Party Full Text
The summary is:
1) Petey returns home and has cornflakes for breakfast while reading the newspaper.
2) Meg wakes up Stanley, who comes down late for breakfast.
3) Meg serves Stanley cornflakes and then fried bread for breakfast despite his complaints.
4) Petey mentions that two men asked if they could board with them, and Meg is enthusiastic about having guests.
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- As a teenager, Conrad began sailing on merchant ships to gain experience at sea. He traveled extensively in the Caribbean and engaged in some gunrunning.
- Conrad eventually became a British citizen in 1886 and wrote his novels in English, though he spoke several other languages. His best known works, like Heart of Darkness, examined themes of human nature and morality.
- Conrad lived much of his later life in England, where he raised a family and continued writing until his death in 1924. His psychologically complex novels had a significant influence on modern
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Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House in 1879 while living in self-imposed exile in Italy and Germany. He came from a bourgeois family in Norway that faced financial troubles. His father was an alcoholic and his mother was submissive, influences that appeared in his plays. Ibsen had an illegitimate son and struggled in his early career in Norway, feeling stifled. He left Norway in 1864 to live abroad, where he wrote many of his major plays, including A Doll's House.
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Comedy of menace refers to plays that combine elements of comedy and tragedy to produce unease in the audience. It originated from a play by David Campton and was used to describe early works by Harold Pinter. Comedy of menace uses everyday settings and situations but creates an atmosphere of threat through implied or actual violence, uncertainty, and the juxtaposition of comedy and seriousness. It reflects the human predicament of living in an indifferent world surrounded by the unknown. Pinter's plays exemplify this technique through subtle menaces, cryptic dialogue, and the withholding of key information from the audience.
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1) The poem discusses how master artists like Breughel understood that suffering often takes place as an unnoticed part of everyday life, as people go about normal activities.
2) It references Breughel's painting of Icarus, where despite Icarus drowning after his wings melt, a ploughman continues working and a ship sails on, indifferent to his suffering.
3) The poem's tone suggests that we often fail to notice extraordinary or awful events happening around us, while caught up in our ordinary lives, and we should work to open our eyes to these things.
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The document provides a biography of Irish playwright J.M. Synge. It details that he was born in Ireland in 1871 and studied at Trinity College Dublin and the Sorbonne. Synge made several trips to the remote Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland starting in 1898, which inspired his most famous play The Playboy of the Western World. The Playboy premiered in 1902 and helped establish the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Synge died in 1909 but helped shape Irish theatre through his plays focused on rural Irish life.
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The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter is an absurdist play that leaves the audience feeling unsettled. It depicts the arrival of two mysterious men, Goldberg and McCann, at a boarding house to interrogate Stanley about his identity. Through contradictory dialogue and a lack of expository information, the play creates an atmosphere of ambiguity, uncertainty, and menace. Stanley becomes a victim as Goldberg and McCann psychologically break him down, reflecting the destruction of the individual voice in society. The play uses jokes and humor to create tension and force the audience into an uncomfortable position of siding with either the aggressor or victim.
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The document provides questions and context about the short story "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence. It summarizes the plot, including that a young boy named Paul discovers he can predict horse race winners while riding his rocking horse. He uses this ability to try to earn money for his dissatisfied mother who craves wealth. However, Paul becomes obsessed with winning more money and dies after correctly predicting another horse race outcome. The document also outlines themes of the story like neglect, obsession, opportunism, and deceit.
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1) The story is framed as a narrative told by Marlow to other men aboard a boat on the Thames in London. Marlow recounts his experience traveling into the Congo to meet Kurtz, an agent for a trading company.
2) Marlow describes the challenging journey through the jungle, the depraved actions he witnesses from other white men, and the inhumane treatment of native people by the company.
3) Upon reaching Kurtz's inner station, Marlow discovers that Kurtz has achieved immense success but has also given in to his darker impulses, fratern
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This document provides a biography and overview of author D.H. Lawrence. It discusses his themes of love, sex, and cultural decay explored in his novels and poetry. It then analyzes his short story "The Odour of Chrysanthemums" which examines the failure of communication and understanding between a mining wife, Elizabeth, and her husband. After her husband's death, Elizabeth reflects on their disconnected marriage where they never truly knew each other. The story illustrates Lawrence's views on the importance of intimacy and acknowledging others' humanity in relationships.
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This document provides summaries of several novels and works of literature from the early 20th century in London:
1. It summarizes Joseph Conrad's 1904 novel Nostromo, set in a fictional South American country.
2. It briefly describes D.H. Lawrence's 1915 novel The Rainbow, which focuses on family dynamics and sexuality.
3. It summarizes Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, set in a dystopian future London.
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The summary is:
1) Petey returns home and has cornflakes for breakfast while reading the newspaper.
2) Meg wakes up Stanley, who comes down late for breakfast.
3) Meg serves Stanley cornflakes and then fried bread for breakfast despite his complaints.
4) Petey mentions that two men asked if they could board with them, and Meg is enthusiastic about having guests.
Heart of darkness by joseph conrad
- Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 in Poland under Russian rule to Polish aristocrats. His father was exiled for revolutionary activities and Conrad became an orphan in his youth.
- As a teenager, Conrad began sailing on merchant ships to gain experience at sea. He traveled extensively in the Caribbean and engaged in some gunrunning.
- Conrad eventually became a British citizen in 1886 and wrote his novels in English, though he spoke several other languages. His best known works, like Heart of Darkness, examined themes of human nature and morality.
- Conrad lived much of his later life in England, where he raised a family and continued writing until his death in 1924. His psychologically complex novels had a significant influence on modern
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*I do not own the images used in the presentation. They are the property of their respective owners.
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Virginia Woolf was one of the most prominent 20th century literary figures known for her innovations in the novel form. She rejected traditional boundaries and sought to develop a more poetic and impressionistic style to better render life. Woolf constantly attempted to produce novels in her own distinctive narrative style, employing techniques like stream of consciousness to follow the inner lives and musings of characters. She also made formal use of silence as a narrative device and presence rather than just an absence.
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Elizabeth Bates anxiously awaits the return of her drunkard husband Walter. When he doesn't come home for dinner, she goes out searching for him with help. They discover he died in an accident at the mine from suffocation. Her marriage had been unhappy and loveless. The story explores themes of industrialization's impacts, the fragility of life, and the failures of Elizabeth's marriage.
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