This document provides biographical information about British playwright Harold Pinter and analyzes a scene from his famous play "The Birthday Party". It notes that Pinter was born in 1930 in Britain, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, and his notable works include "The Birthday Party". The scene summary describes Act II of the play, where Stanley denies having a birthday party but the guests force him to play a game called "blind man's buff" in the dark, during which Lulu is raped while crying out.

1. ‘The Birthday Party
Scene’
Name: Saryu D. Baraiya
Subject: The Modernist
Literature [Paper – IX]
Roll No: 25
Study: M.A.
Year: Semester- III
Submitted to: Department of
English
University: Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University
saryubaraiya93@gamil.com

2. ‘The Birthday Party Scene’
Harold Pinter
 Born: 10th October, 1930
 Profession: Play writer,
Screenwriter, Actor, Theater
director, Poet
 Nationality: British
 Nobel Prize winner in 2005
 His Most Famous works: No
Man’s Land, The Birthday
Party, Betrayal,
 His career begin with the
play, ‘The Room’
 Died: 24th December, 2008

3. ‘The Birthday Party Scene’

4. ‘The Birthday Party Scene’
Actual ‘The Birthday Party’

5. ‘The Birthday Party Scene’
 The Modern play
 The absurd play
 First performed: 28th April, 1958
 Three Acts:
Act - I
Act - II
Act - III

6. ‘The Birthday Party Scene’
Characters in ‘Act – II’:
 Stanley Webber
 Meg Boles
 Petey Boles
 Lulu
 Goldberg
 McCann

7. ‘The Birthday Party Scene’
Stanley’s
Birthday
party
Stanley
denies for
it
Game:
‘Blind
men’s
buff’
Darkness
in the
room
Lulu’s
rape
Lulu’s
cries

8. Thank you….