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Betrayal - Coggle Diagram
Betrayal
Author context:
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"The Birthday Party" - tensions, contradictions left unexplained, absurd logic
Context of the play:
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as the play develops viewers/readers always know more about characters than the characters will know
first scene 1977 - Emma + Jerry sit in a pub discussing their love affair, long since terminated + imminent end of her marriage
9 scenes move back in time through circumstances surrounding breakup of J + E - revelation of affair to Robert, the affair, first moment Jerry confesses
reversed structure marks every action + scene w/ sense of inevitability, shows how meanings + feelings can change over time
conveys various layers of character interactions - lovers rarely say what they mean, love is a fiction we create, we identify the patters + many incidences gain further meaning
interrogations - how "real" and substantial are feelings, are they dependent on context/specificities of time? - is there everlasting/permanent unchanging love?
repressed feelings, unspoken frustrations, a sense of emptiness -empty space + time as an eraser, silences carrying tension + pain
Characters + quotations
Jerry
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narrative - "ideal/idea", anxiety over big narrative over what is love/friendship - betrayaln
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"I don't need to think of you" - emphasis on think, something else overpowering him, convincing himself he doesn't still care or feel for her
literature
connects them all - agent, writer, publisher, reader
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has a poor view by some - literature creates urges + obsessions, side of literature that is not so romanticised
different ways of showing literature - not complete, fragmented = engaging in a relationship w/ literature
homosociality
same-sex bonding or relationships that are not of a romantic sexual nature, such as friendship /mentorship
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