The Caretaker: A Study of Uncertainty as a Dramatic Device

Abstract

The Caretakeris an absurd play that depicts virtually the mirror image of modern life which Harold Pinter explores by applying the technique of uncertainty at latent as well as manifest levels. Human existence has fallen in the vicious circle of uncertainty with the decadence ofspirituality, rationality, faith, unity and so on. The world is hostile for living where man has to make utmost struggle for existence. He is compelled to repeat the same activities which seem nonsensical. This aspect of life has been explored vividly through setting, characters, actions, plot, language in the play. In a nutshell, the play is the dramatization of the condition of modern man.