The Dualism of Inside and Outside and the Truth in Harold Pinter’s The Room /Harold Pinter’ın Oda Oyununda İç / Dış Düalizmi ve Hakikat
The aim of this article is to explore the inside and outside dichotomies associated with the Lacanian topological figure’s trajectory, torus, in Harold Pinter’s play, The Room. The intrusion of uninvited visitors problematizes Rose’s logocentric speech that hides her deficiencies behind her conti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cyprus International University
2022-11-01
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| Series: | Folklor/Edebiyat |
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| Online Access: | https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/855175272_112,11%20elif%20d.%20%c5%9fenduran.pdf |
| Summary: | The aim of this article is to explore the inside and outside dichotomies associated
with the Lacanian topological figure’s trajectory, torus, in Harold Pinter’s play, The
Room. The intrusion of uninvited visitors problematizes Rose’s logocentric
speech that hides her deficiencies behind her continuous movements around the
stage prop of the kitchen sink with this drama repeating itself throughout the
play. The intertextuality in the play reveals the truth about Rose’s original
identity within mythopoeic thought, blurring the boundaries between inside and
out. Torus’s trajectory elucidates energy that situates outside to the centre of the
subject and the room, which is examined in Badiou’s notion of truth, hidden in
black, blind Riley’s message to Rose. The study also draws on the notions of
subaltern and the hegemony to expand the framework of analysis, concluding that
the murderous cold of the outside is right at the centre of Rose’s room like a
black hole that reflects the deficient, widening the hole by repetitive acts and
speeches, caused by the chaotic movements and speech that the characters
experience in the play. Rose’s sudden blindness, after Riley’s murder by Bert,
erases the room’s feature of being a safe space. Thus, the hierarchy for all the
characters in the play, which relies on the structure placing Man at the centre of
the universe, is destroyed both epistemologically and ontologically. Rose
becomes blind because of the light of the truth, constituted by the menace of the
characters. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-7491 2791-6057 |