Volume 8, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 261–267
Dr. Mona Gad Sayed Gad1
1 Associate Prof., Basic Science Department, Faculty of engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology, Gamasa, Coastal International Road, Dakahlia, Egypt
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Plato's The Allegory of the Cave, Book VII of The Republic and Pinter's The Room (1957) show not only much similarity but also fundamental differences. This paper analyzes the similarities between Rose, Pinter's character and the shackled prisoners in Plato's allegory. Both works have the same beginning and the same ending. In the two works Both Plato and Pinter share the existentialist point of view that man is a stranger in the world. In addition, both works are introducing the idea of art for truth's sake and consequently art for life's sake. The play has nearly the same plot structure of the Allegory and Rose, the protagonist of the play becomes "A Pinter's character in Plato's cave".
Author Keywords: Plato, Pinter, existentialism.
Dr. Mona Gad Sayed Gad1
1 Associate Prof., Basic Science Department, Faculty of engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology, Gamasa, Coastal International Road, Dakahlia, Egypt
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Plato's The Allegory of the Cave, Book VII of The Republic and Pinter's The Room (1957) show not only much similarity but also fundamental differences. This paper analyzes the similarities between Rose, Pinter's character and the shackled prisoners in Plato's allegory. Both works have the same beginning and the same ending. In the two works Both Plato and Pinter share the existentialist point of view that man is a stranger in the world. In addition, both works are introducing the idea of art for truth's sake and consequently art for life's sake. The play has nearly the same plot structure of the Allegory and Rose, the protagonist of the play becomes "A Pinter's character in Plato's cave".
Author Keywords: Plato, Pinter, existentialism.
How to Cite this Article
Dr. Mona Gad Sayed Gad, “Rose: A Pinter's Character in Plato's Cave - Pinter's The Room and Plato's Allegory of the Cave,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 261–267, September 2014.
