Menace and Fear In Harold Pinters The Birthday Party

Menace and fear play a vital role in Harold Pinter s plays. They are recurrent themes throughout the thematic construction of his plays. Pinter thinks that these feelings spring from within human beings. It is a matter of critical circumstances one may pass through. They are not only external elements that come from sinister people but also these things embodied within. The present paper tackles Pinter s The Birthday Party which trying to show the reason behind his fear which springs from his minority as a Jew.