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The Politics of Violence in John Arden’s and Harold Pinter’s Selected Plays | ||
| journal of the college of basic education | ||
| Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 67, 2011, Pages 69-86 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Amir Abdul Zahra Khamis Al-Azraki; Ihsan Alwan Muhsin Al-Sweidi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The causes and consequences of political violence have become major topics of research in an era of history weighed down by seemingly continual warfare, revolution, and other violent acts of every description. The study of the politics of violence, on the other hand, has drawn upon theoretical perspectives and forms of analysis from all the social and political sciences. The problematic of violence and its justification is a concern not only for scientists and politicians but also for artists and playwrights. Many playwrights have endeavored to display the argument of violence and its politics in their works. Among those playwrights are John Arden and Harold Pinter.Accordingly, this paper attempts to delineate the politics of violence in selected plays by two playwrights: John Arden and Harold Pinter. It tries to present a new interpretation of political violence and address the question of “when can violence be justified?” Hence, it will show how these playwrights look into violence and its rationalization. Moreover, it will testify the plays as productions of the political theatre. To achieve such an aim, the paper will mainly hinge on Marxist and post- Marxist thinkers like Karl Marx and Louis Althusser. Their theories of power, subjugation, and violence will be the approach of the paper to decipher the complex manipulation of violence in these plays. | ||
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