Apparenza e realtà nel XX secolo tesina

Tra apparenza e realtà nel XX secolo

Inglese

Harold Pinter

The Room

Tedesco

Il Nazismo

(Hitler e la DDR: aspetti comuni e differenze)

Spagnolo

Federico García Lorca

(La casa de Bernarda Alba)

Storia

Il Fascismo

(Propaganda e massificazione delle idee)

Italiano

Luigi Pirandello

(Uno, nessuno, centomila)

Adriana Camorali 5°A Erica Anno scolastico

Life and main works

• Harold Pinter was born at Hackney, East London, in 1930, into a Jewish working-class family.
• He was educated at Hackney Grammar School.
• His adolescence was marked by experiences of prejudice and violence.
• He declared himself a conscientious objector on the ground of his radical pacifism.
• The Room and The Caretaker are the most important plays by him.

The pattern of Pinter’s plays

• The starting point of his plays is always a commonplace situation which becomes full of mystery and fear.
• We can also find the introduction of symbolic or even supernatural elements.
• In his play The Room, there are two people in a room which represents their only refuge against the hostile world outside.
• These characters are afraid and this fear increases when the arrival of an intruder (another character, an animal or an object) upsets the balance of their life.
• The result can be madness and sometimes death.

Characters and atmosphere

• In Pinter’s plays, the world that surrounds his characters is normally indefinite.
• His plays do not follow a logical pattern.
• His method of characterization is strongly innovative.
• Nobody gives information about the characters’ past, their background, their appearance. Even the names are not certain.
• His plays are characterized by the impossibility of identifying truth and it gives a sense of suspense.
• In his plays the author does not give a solution to the mystery.

Use of language

• Pinter’s language is perhaps the most original contribution to the Theatre of the Absurd.
• The author wants to recreate the average everyday conversation with its colloquialisms, repetitions, incorrect syntax, pauses and protracted silence.
• Silence is an essential part. We can distinguish between two kinds of silence: one when no word is spoken and the other when perhaps a torrent of language is employed.
• The “Theatre of language” is a perfect mix of suspense, tension, tragedy and laughter with the impression of reality.
• His language is poetic, rather than naturalistic.
• The most important skill of Pinter is to turn ordinary lower-class people and events into a poetic vision.

Vida

• Federico García Lorca nació en un pequeño país cerca de Granada, en 1898.
• En Granada inicia sus estudios de música, derecho y letras que proseguirá en Madrid.
• En 1932 funda el grupo La barraca que lleva teatro clásico y moderno por los pueblos de España.
• Por eso se puede conectar su tragedia de 1936 cuando su asesinato resulta uno de los primeros de la guerra civil.
• De un lado podemos subrayar su vitalidad y simpatía, de otro un continuo malestar y un dolor de vivir.
• Esta es la razón por la cual en su obra aparezca muy bien como elemento obsesivo central el tema del destino trágico, la imposibilidad de realizarse y la frustración.

Los primeros libros

• En 1921 publica Libro de poemas, uno de sus primeros libros. La temática es muy variada pero domina ya su sufrimiento y dolor, causados también por su infancia.