The Birthday Party에 나타난 언어의 폭력성 = Language Aggression in The Birthday Party

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

One of the primary concern of the playwrights who emerged since World War Ⅱ is the relationship between man and his language. In the plays of Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Edward Bond, Edward Albee, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard, we can find that language is not only a tool of dramatic expression but the central action or a powerful character who destroys the other characters of forces them into conformity. Therefore, in these plays, language seems to be in the cneter of our concerns.
In The Bithday Party Pinter draws our attention ot so much to what is being said, as to the form of speech. He focuses on a distinctive usage of language as a form of aggression. He dramatizes dramatic violence through a few speech patterns of Goldberg and McCann : the use of stichomythia which transposes the dialogue into a derealised chant whose hypnotic effect makes Stanley to lose language, the use of jargon which forces Stanley to give up any response to their verbal agression, and 'name-game' in which name-calling functions as a domineering power rather than a symbol of man's identity. With the power of language only they attempt to control and shape Stanley's mind, to gain power over his thoughts. This means Stanley's total conversion into the mold of his torturers, Goldberg and McCann who speak for, in the voice of, a ruling social or political discourse.
Therfore one of ironic facts found in Pinter's plays is that language is still alive as a form of manipulating and domineering power even though its referential function is almost not working. But we have to answer one question : Is it possible to criticise the danger of language through language? Pinter solves this problem by making a dramatic device to objectify language. Goldberg and McCann seem to be realistic characters. But their primary function in this paly i to show the destructive power of language. Through the characterization of them Pinter dramatizes all the negative power of language which we experience in our daily life.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 들어가며
• Ⅱ. 폭력적 언어의 형식
• Ⅲ. 언어적 폭력의 실제
• Ⅳ. 맺으면서
• Bibliography
• Summary