The Caretaker

Sofía Croxatto XI°D.
How language is used to evade and intimidate? How this does reveals the character’s personality?
Art is, and will always be, a reactional mirror of society. When arts stops accomplishing this, it becomes hypocrit, and this is why cultural and artisitc movements have gone through several metamorphosis. Harol Pinter attemps to be a mirror of what 20th century was: arevelation to reality. Though his play does not reflex directly warfare or religious discussion, but it does reflect the impact of reality that humanity had suffer, and how? Through the use of language. Pinter tries - and achieves - to demonstrate de truth of language, by uncovering all forms of language. Language therefore is the axis of The Caretaker. Meaning, Pinter's proposal consist on how languagerelies on different edges, and how this edges reveal us the composition of a character, and adjust this characters on the play. Now, Pinter uses language to construct the play - and not the play creating language. Pinter proposes subtext as a natural way of communication; in other words, not a failure of language, but a part of language's nature. Therefore, it is the language itself that definesthe characters, their relationship between them, and the world. From this derived life as a role game, another reality of human's nature that Pinter exposes in his play. A game, a competition, between character's and the language, between character's and the world. The power of language, language as the monarch of it's characters. A character may control what he is saying, but what about what he isnot saying? Can a person control what others are saying? Here it enters the failure of language: more is said in what it is not said. Now reality is that language does not only rely in verbal communication, thus in physical communication, tone, pauses, in what is not said verbally. Finally, we may state that Harol Pinter uncovered the truth of language, language that is is not only created,invented, and used at our envers. It is the language of truth, on what it is not said. Gathering all these, we may identify the net that Pinter created in his play: The theater of Menace. The of all types on languages through the construction of a human being, relationships. Pinter exposes the role game and the search of identity through another game: Intimidation. And how does intimidation takes place?Through language. As a result of intimidation, now a character consist on being 2 things: What he tries to be, and what the world (including other characters) is trying to make of it.
Davies is sort of an axis between the other characters, Mick and Aston. Through Mick and Aston are brothers, their main connection in stage is through Davies, so this will be the first character to be analysed.Davies is on a constant battle on hiding his indentity, and creating a new one, being his purpose seem like a reliable person, thou needy. Objectivly, his true purpose is to find refugee, but this type of refugee changes through the play. For example: "You sleep here, do you?", "Yoy got any more rooms then, have you?", "This is your house then, isn't it?". All this sentences in the first scenereveals the that he is looking for a roof. But, now in act three, Davies says: "You and me, we could get this place going". He is now looking for another type of refugee, sort of wanting to belong somewhere, having a psychological place, and therefore, and identity. Now, though we may consider Davies being in a lower position that the other characters, he uses this to dominate Aston, in the firstscene. "Sit down? Huh... I haven't had a good sit down... I haven't had a proper sit down... well, I couldn't tell you...". He tries to expose himself as a person in need, like a person that has suffered, trying to appeal to Aston emotions. Now, we may identify a pattern in Davies' communication resources. He etiher uses long speeches, or short but unprecise phrases. Still, this two appeal to the...