記憶される虚構 : ハロルド・ピンターの『背信』

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• Harold Pinter's Betrayal is a sister play to The Collection (1961) and Old Times (1970). All three plays deal with a husband and wife verifying what actually happened to their partner in the past. However, what makes Betrayal outstanding among them is its anti-clockwise scheme. The play opens with the ex-lovers meeting in one of their old pub haunts in order finally to bury their liaison. Then it moves progressively, through all stages of their affairs, backwards in time to the lovers' first moment of embrace nine years earlier. As the story develops, our conventional interest in what happens next is replaced by questions of how. By switching attention to behavioural motivation, Pinter focuses more precisely than ever before on the mechanics of exploitation, the politics of human relations. Betrayal is a story in which main characters betray one another in separate ways on different levels. Conversations are thus negotiations in which the characters try to achieve and maintain the controlling position among them, and to protect themselves from others' attempts to place them in a subordinate status. Every line expresses their continual struggle for alignment. In their communication what matters most is not whether the statement is true or not, but how the words spoken modify and adjust their present relationship. The events recollected and verified are also filtered through each character's own mode of communication. They remember the past as it should have happened. Their past experience is thus recalled in order to improve the present situation and for the benefit of the potential relationships.

• 桃山学院大学の論文
• 1999-12-20

著者

• 小野 良子

  文学部 イギリス文学専攻

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