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The Intruders In The Birthday Party

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From the audiences’ perspective, intruders in Pinter’s plays are mostly seen as villains because they cause many troubles for other characters and sometimes they even bring death to them. So that is one of the reasons why we always see them as the villains, but from Wong-Rosengarten’s researcher, the writer claims that ‘Intruders as Liberators in The Birthday Party’ is what we need to take a closely look to the intruders again; this paves a new way to look at Pinter’s play and we might agree with that. Wong-Rosengarten presents a new angle looking at the way the intruders do to other characters who are not directly affected by them, so the intruders are looked in the better way, but leaving the good and bad sides of the intruders alone because here we are focusing on a consequence of the intruders in the play like The Birthday Party and Ashes to Ashes …show more content…

The intruders cause the main characters identity crisis; they change the way the characters behave and think, and those changes happen in many levels in the play until they become permanent changes of the characters as we see in the plays. In Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, Stanley, the main character, is forced by violence and wicked tricks to become a new person without any identity of himself or even voice to speak; this change is vivid and intense, and it hits him like bullets making him become weaker and weaker throughout the play till he is overcome by it at the end. Stanley is

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