20.500.12556/DKUM-22855 PANOPTICISM IN PINTER'S THE DUMB WAITER PANOPTIZEM V PINTERJEVEM MUTASTEM NATAKARJU Written in 1957 by one of the most influential contemporary British dramatist Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter may never have gained the popularity of other Pinter works, yet it remains to this day one of his most challenging and provocative plays, a powerful metaphor of man’s position in modern society. The play was labelled a “comedy of menace” and placed within the Theatre of the Absurd, while its political side was often overlooked. The very title of the play contains Pinter’s political cynicism as well as his almost apocalyptic view of the future of the human race and is highly symbolic of some of Pinter’s most frequently employed techniques and themes: silence and violence of language, one-way communication, use and abuse of power, the exposure of characters to ominous menace, and the sense of imprisonment of body and soul when trapped inside four walls. Pinter’s preoccupation with confined spaces and consequently with seemingly free individuals who are deprived of basic human rights, such as freedom of speech, blends nicely with Foucault’s vision of a modern carceral society. In this diploma thesis, the play is analysed through Michel Foucault’s concept of panopticism, where the “Pinteresque” room acquires a symbolic meaning of modern man’s ravaged state of mind and loss of identity, constantly exposed to surveillance and the invisible power of the modern information society. Mutasti natakar, preveden tudi kot Strežni jašek, sodi med najbolj provokativna dela enega najvplivnejših sodobnih britanskih dramatikov dvajesetega stoletja Harolda Pinterja. Čeprav ga ne zasledimo na seznamu Pinterjevih najbolj prepoznavnih del, velja od svojega nastanka leta 1957 dalje za izrazito metaforično dramo o položaju človeka v sodobni informacijski družbi. Mnogi kritiki uvrščajo Mutastega natakarja v dramo absurda in ga označujejo kot komedijo grožnje, zaradi česar je njegova politična plat pogosto ostala spregledana. Pinterjev politični cinizem in njegov skoraj apokaliptičen pogled na prihodnost človeštva je tako zajet že v samem naslovu drame, ki je hkrati izrazit simbol Pinterjevih najpogostejših tehnik in tem, kot so: tišina in silovitost jezika, enosmerna komunikacija, uporaba in zloraba moči, ominozna grožnja, ujetost telesa in duha znotraj štirih sten. Avtorjevo zanimanje za zaprte prostore in posledično za navidezno svobodne posameznike, ki jim je odvzeta celo najosnovnejša pravica do svobode govora, se tako dobro staplja s Foucaultovo vizijo moderne karceralne družbe. V diplomski nalogi je zato posebna pozornost posvečena analizi drame skozi Foucaultov koncept panoptizma, v luči katerega “pinterijanska” soba deluje kot simbol opustošenega stanja duha in izgubljene identitete sodobnega človeka, izpostavljenega nenehnemu nadzoru in nevidni moči institucij sodobne informacijske družbe. The Dumb Waiter Harold Pinter Theatre of the Absurd comedy of menace Pinteresque Michel Foucault panopticism. Mutasti natakar Strežni jašek Harold Pinter drama absurda komedija grožnje pinterijanski Michel Foucault panoptizem. true true false [K. Kolak] Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Diplomsko delo 2012-05-02 12:27:57 2012-06-12 13:40:46 2022-04-14 12:09:11 2023-12-31 03:08:22 2012 0 Maribor 0 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 821.111-2(043.2) 19179016 URN:SI:UM:DK:IRYDCIAD UNI_Kolak_Kristina_2012.pdf UNI_Kolak_Kristina_2012.pdf 1 43DB9783A4DFBA4C5432D0B4DCF4D6EB d86d998f0507b741b2603461bf472b82e9c3f0c3adcc1c8e09dba72e8dfcfc34 971f01e3-7c06-11eb-bb7a-00155d0001ca 20.500.12556/dkum/c08578d6-4453-4eea-91e1-89bf1e2852e6 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=29719 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0