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One For The Road - Harold Pinter

 

Description: ISBN 0571160921 / Author: Harold Pinter / Genre: Drama / Poetry / Criticism / A violent short play in which an interrogator from an ... more
One For The Road - Harold Pinter ... unnamed totalitarian state torments, in turn, a tortured prisoner, his wife and his child.

Newest Review: ... think we have nuns upstairs? Pause. What do we have upstairs? GILA: No nuns. NICOLAS: What do we have? GILA: Men. Then ... more

 ... another interrogation of Victor takes place and in it you find out how this tragedy ...ends? No, it just goes on and on endlessly and in many parts of the world. It is definitely not a nice thing to read or watch, but torture has never been entertaining and I read many stories from real life about torture that are much more terroristic than this one. In this play, however, the kind of torture you see here is mostly psychological. Nicholas shows signs of megalomania as he tells Victor how important he is and how terri...more

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Premium Review One For The Road - Harold Pinter: Psychological Torture (808 words)
by sottovoce1982 - written on 16/01/08 (Very useful, 280 readings)
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One for the Road (1984) By Harold Pinter The play begins with a supposedly religious man-in-authority called Nicholas' interrogation of Victor who is just an intellectual. The title "One for the Road" is a reference to the glasses of whisky that Nicholas keeps pouring to himself: "I think I deserve one for the road." As he drinks, he keeps on chatting to himself mostly since Victor remains silent most of the time. He starts telling Victor casually how his books were kicked about, his rugs were urinated on, and also he begins mentioning Victor's wife and son. He simply says how hot the wife is and how everybody is falling in ...

 

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