"The Dumb Writer"

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This paper examines the issue of communication in Pinter's play. The main characters Gus and Ben are simple characters and their means of communication are the central theme in this play. It shows how even though the two characters interact and talk and discuss, they don't really communicate. The essence of the difference between just talking and really communicating is analyzed.

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""Silence": the stage direction that often speaks far more clearly than words ever could. The characters in Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter are bound by this direction throughout the work, locked in a pantomimic parody of our own world. Pinter's dialogue, the stage directions and the world created within the play must follow this golden rule; however, silence is only one course within the larger meal. By examining the text, reading critical works, and studying Pinter's words himself we find that the meal we have trouble swallowing is listed on the menu as "communication;" true communication is often something too difficult to even attempt. By "true communication" it is meant the ability to get another person to understand your ideas in their purest form; a notion that, after studying The Dumb Waiter, is increasingly in decay."

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