Otro

Question 1

House is on the list

Context

Answer 1

Black list
McCarthyism
Cold War backdrop
Post war austerity

Question 2

General contexts

Answer 2

Class
Gender and power 
Post world war 2 
Countryside not prosperous 
Prívate vs public spheres literary 
Rise of the thriller Agatha Christie thriller 
Hemingway’s the killers

Question 3

What is a peripeteia

Answer 3

Sudden reversal of fortune or change

Reversal of power dynamics

Question 4

Where did Pinter describes it as a mystery play

Answer 4

BBC radio 4 interview

Question 5

What did Pinter himself say in a BBC radio 4 interview

Answer 5

‘It is a mystery play’

And that it is not all about intentions

Question 6

Non-

Answer 6

Sequiturs

Question 7

Inconsistencies

Answer 7

Inconsistencies

Question 8

Because it’s a play you should mention

Answer 8

The audience
Tableau
Stage directions
Stage craft

Question 9

Goldberg nightingale quote

Answer 9

“A nightingale, my word of honour. Good? Pure? She wasn’t a Sunday school teacher for nothing.”

Question 10

These days those days Goldberg quote

Answer 10

“We weren’t like the young men these days in those days”

Question 11

Corpse quote Goldberg

Answer 11

“What are you but a corpse waiting to be washed?”

Question 12

Farse meaning

Answer 12

Disguise
Concealment
Sexual intrigue

Question 13

Blindfolding gives what

Answer 13

Vulnerability by limiting the senses

Question 14

What did Petey say abt his childhood unlike the rest

Answer 14

“We all remember our childhoods”

Question 15

Billingdon memory for p is both

Answer 15

Memory, for Pinter, is both personal and infectious

Question 16

Sinister nature of blind mans buff

Answer 16

Adults playing children’s games

“Giggling”

Question 17

Cyclical synonym

Answer 17

Circular

Question 18

Lulu to Goldberg showing circularity

Answer 18

You’re the dead image of the first man I ever loved

Question 19

Billington ambivalences

Answer 19

The ambivalences are sinister as well as humorous: the intention is to unsettle the audience, not simply to entertain

Question 20

Stanley first stage direction appearance vs last

Answer 20

Unshaven, in his Panama jacket and wears glasses

He ushers in Stanley, who is dressed in a dark well cut suit and white collar. He hold his broken glasses in his hand. He is clean-shaven.

(McCann ushers in Stanley)