psychologogil reading in Harold Pinter "the caretaker"

•                          “The Caretaker” is considered to be a confrontational, challenging and disturbing to the values and the assumptions of an audience. It was written by a great British playwright Harold Pinter in the late 1950's in which he disrupts the audience perceptions of existence and their understandings of it. The play deconstructs perceived notions and conceptions of reality, and disturbs the audience perception of their own identity and place within a world which is primarily concerned with the search and need for identity. Pinter was clearly influenced by the fashionable philosophic review of human condition that was prominent in the 1950's and 1960's “existentialism”. The play attacks the notion that there are no absolute truths or realities. Pinter is therefore concerned with what exists as unknown and intangible to humanity. His theatre interrogates the truths of nature and realities of language and demonstrates that much of what the audience regards as fact, is fiction, as he explores the uncertainty of human existence as well as he disrupts the traditional attitudes towards theatre and the conventions of realist drama. Pinter divorces and exposes society's codes, institutions and human relations, using in that a new kind of theatre, which was known as “the theatre of absurd”.
  Throughout this monograph we are going to focus on the psychological characteristic that the characters of Pinter’s “the caretaker” take through the play, and how these characteristics affect the relationships between the characters the play .in addition to that we are going to discover how Harold Pinter succeeds in creating a new kind of theatre using what is called “the absurd"