论哈罗德·品特《情人》中的戏仿艺术

摘要

Harold Pinter(1930-2008)is a great postwar playwright who won the Nobel Prize in2005.As a prolific writer,Pinter writes poems,short novels and radio dramas,and is most famous for his plays,in which his high-leveled writing skills put him on a par with any of the great writers. As a Jew,belonging and wandering are main compositions for Pinter’s personal life,and key subjects for Pinteresque writing.Pinter continuously sights to express his feeling towards homelessness and loneliness in his plays.Without exception,The Lover is such a play that concerns the theme of searching for final belonging.In order to strengthen the sense of homelessness,Pinter juxtaposes The Lover and fairy tale Cinderella,and conceals the truth of wandering beneath an illusory guise of felicity.The fantastic illusion in The Lover is built on lies and eroded by the cruel reality from time to time.Once the illusion is revealed,noble characters’dreams for happiness are deconstructed and the dilemma of homelessness is strengthened.Through depicting such conflicts between truth and falsity,Pinter creates a strong sense of dramatic tension in The Lover. This thesis attempts to uncover the parodied background of Cinderella under the parodic foreground of The Lover and calls attention to Pinter’s parodic writing skill. Chapter One starts with Pinter’s life experience,his writing career and previous studies on his The Lover.All these help to pave the road for a further study. Chapter Two analyzes Pinter’s deformation of noble characters through parodying images in Cinderella.Clothes and the drum,as two central symbols in The Lover,are important images for Pinter to realize his parodic purpose.Through distortion and deconstruction,Pinter molds two despicable characters who are under the suppression of the given order,and are required to wear deceptive masks all the time. Chapter Three discusses Pinter’s high-leveled parodic technique towards time element.This chapter collects Pinter’s strategies of compressing and personalizing time and proves that Pinter attempts to show the conflict between reality and illusion through parodying time’s demarcated function in Cinderella. In Chapter Four,Pinter’s spatial strategy is discussed.In this chapter,through analyzing two places,the garden and the room,and their metaphorical meanings in The Lover,the author of the thesis explores Pinter’s way of revealing homelessness through depicting a romantic illusion. Chapter Five summarizes Pinter’s parodic strategies and reveals that The Lover shows the incompatible conflicts between reality and illusion in modern society.The deformation of traditional fairy tale is not simply in the name of enjoyment,but a reflection towards the existent order.Parody is a way of self-expression for both his characters and Pinter himself.Through parodying,Pinter expresses his sympathy towards those ordinary people whose daily lives are full of banal schedules and suffer disappointed feelings when realizing the unbridgeable gap between romantic illusion and cruel reality. With the help of subversiveness in parody,Pinter makes a Pinteresque fairy tale out of a Cinderella background.In The Lover,the day-dreamy happy ending is broken,and readers’expectations for felicity fall.It is this gap between expectation and reality that the absurdity of modern life is well expressed.

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Acknowledgements

Abstract

摘要

Contents

Chapter One Introduction

1.1 Introduction to Harold Pinter and His The Love

1.2 Literature Review

1.2.1 Studies of The Lover Abroad

1.2.2 Studies of The Lover at Home

1.3 The Significance of the Thesis

1.4 The Introduction to Parody

1.5 The Structure of the Thesis

Chapter Two Parody of Images

2.1 Clothes as Masks

2.1.1 Woman with Cinderella Complex

2.1.2 Man with Prince’s Hubris

2.2 Drum: the Parody towards Clue-Leaving Plot

Chapter Three Parody of Time

3.1 The Oscillation between Truth and Illusion

3.2 The Personalization of Time

Chapter Four Parody of Space

4.1 The Garden: an Unstable Eden

4. 2 The Room: a Shell Rather Than a Home

Chapter Five Conclusion

Bibliography

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