betrayal context + critics

Question 1

What were the swinging 60s?

Answer 1

Youth driven, cultural revolution - flourishing in art, music + fashion

Question 2

What did the mini skirt mean for women?

Answer 2

Symbolised a growth in female independence as women broke away from tradition gender rules; challenged trad ideas of modesty

Question 3

How did Britain suffer economically in the 70s?

Answer 3

Skyrocket in inflation + unemployment; strikes, power cuts + states of emergency

Question 4

What did the invention of the contraceptive pill mean in the 60s/70s?

Answer 4

Allowed women to take control over fertility + was a form of liberation; stimulated new era in British attitudes towards relationships

Question 5

What did the legalisation of abortion mean for women?

Answer 5

Allowed women to take control over their bodies + family planning
Women no longer had stresses w family planning bc abortion was an option

Question 6

What happened to marriage/divorce in the 60s/70s?

Answer 6

70s saw an increase in divorces
Decrease in amount of women marrying (may have been influenced by abortion/pill legalisation)
No pregnancy outside marriage issues anymore

Question 7

What did Pinter stick w?

Answer 7

Stuck w his principles + politics

Question 8

What did Pinter love?

Answer 8

Star athlete; loved cricket

Question 9

What did Pinter have?

Answer 9

“Capacity of loyalty to people” to his male school friends BILLINGTON

Question 10

What did Billington say about the ending?

Answer 10

“There’s an unresolved ending where the audience is left to make up their mind”

Question 11

What did Pinter realise? What did he mean by this?

Answer 11

“Our conversations are non linear and non logical”
We may sometimes be communicating w someone but aren’t rlly having proper dialogue

Question 12

What did Pinter once recognise?

Answer 12

“The hidden violence of cricket”

Question 13

What does Billington say about Pinter’s view of friendship?

Answer 13

“Pinter had a sacerdotal view of male friendship”

Question 14

Who says silences whether long/short are moments of intense emotions?

Answer 14

Hall

Question 15

What did Pinter refuse to do?

Answer 15

Refused to do national service in 40s
He wasnt a pacifist but had an “instinctive reaction against authority” BILLINGTON

Question 16

Who was Pinter’s first wife?

Answer 16

Vivienne Merchant

Question 17

What happened after the affair w Joan Bakewell + Pinter was revealed?

Answer 17

Daniel (son) couldn’t forgive Pinter for the way he treated his mother + estranged him

Question 18

What was the Pinter + Bakewell affair?

Answer 18

7 year affair

Question 19

What is pinteresque?

Answer 19

Colloquial language, persistent tension; irony

Question 20

What happened with the letters in Pinter’s affair?

Answer 20

In 1962 Joan went on holiday to Venice with her husband.
Went to American express hoping to receive a letter from Pinter but ended up with one addressed to her husband from his mistress.

Question 21

How did Pinter describe 1970s London?

Answer 21

“A good place to have an affair”

Question 22

What did one of the letters from Pinter to Bakewell say?

Answer 22

He was “counting the days until we are reunited again”

Question 23

What does Cohn say Jerry does in the final scene?

Answer 23

“Verbal rape”

Question 24

How were Michael Bakewell + Pinter connected?

Answer 24

Michael Bakewell helped get Pinter’s plays aired on the BBC radio

Question 25

Who says Jerry manifests paradoxical innocence?

Answer 25

Billington

Question 26

Who were Joan Bakewell’s children?

Answer 26

Harriet + Matthew

Question 27

How did Bakewell + Pinter meet?

Answer 27

Joan + Michael were having a party at their flat and she went out to talk to a stranger, finding herself “captivated” by Pinter
J + M had previously seen a Pinter play on its opening night but P+M were already working together

Question 28

What does Joan describe about Harriet?

Answer 28

Pinter loved to toss Harriet in the air, like Jerry tosses Charlotte

Question 29

What does Hall say about silences?

Answer 29

“Silences whether long or short are moments of intense emotions”

Question 30

Who said Pinter had a sacerdotal view of male friendship?

Answer 30

Billington

Question 31

What does Hall call the play?

Answer 31

It’s a play about self betrayal;

Question 32

What does Bakewell call Emma?

Answer 32

“My character Emma is the stronger + Harold had in fact written a fem. play”

Question 33

What does Billington say about Jerry?

Answer 33

“Jerry manifests a paradoxical innocence”

Question 34

What does Billington say about Emma surviving?

Answer 34

“Emma survives this network of deceit w great style, the 2 men are spiritually annihilated by it”