Power Motif and its Conduciveness in Harold Pinter’s Homecoming
(A Critical Follow-up Study )
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33193/JALHSS.132.2026.1725الكلمات المفتاحية:
Power; motif, conduciveness, dominance, Harold Pinter, The Homecoming, masculinity, silenceالملخص
Power, as the ability to control, influence, or command behaviour, is relational. It requires a community, a relationship between an oppressor and an oppressed, a ruler and a subject, or a man and a woman. Drama, especially the social and realist plays of Harold Pinter, represents this dynamic very well, and his play The Homecoming represents how power governs relationships among characters through several distinct dimensions. That is to say that power is conducive to some other manifestations that would emerge through the interplay among the dramatis personae. And any character may play this or that role and it would come under this duality of the use of Power. So, for the conveniences of dealing with such a topic, ‘such manifestations’ are regarded as ‘conducivenesses’. The study examines five conducivenesses of power in The Homecoming: dominance and control, aggression, violence and threat, obedience and silence, and masculinity and sexuality.
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