Abstract: The life in post-war period has been adverse due to the sudden eruption of the World War II that inflicted human suffering. In the second half of the 20th century, human life has been awful, problematic and miserable etc. the paper is an effort to understand post-war human suffering. Harold Pinter, the absurdist playwright investigated the unfavourable circumstances in this period where every kind of predicament troubled the humans. Existential dilemma has been the foremost issue discussed in the paper; it kept post-war humans on shocking edges all the time. The other issues reflected in the paper are Identity crisis and Breakdown of communication which have been the factors for human absurdity. The issue of hegemony or domination found among individuals is revealed through the events of the play.
Keywords: Communication breakdown, Hegemony, Identity crisis, Post-war, Suffering, The Caretaker.
Title: Chaos in Post-War Life —Analysis of the Caretaker
Author: Mudasir Ahmad Mir
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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