LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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Alienation in Wesker’s Play The Kitchen

Dr. Vandana Goyal, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

The literary works of 1950’s have a distinct characteristic. They are seen as a protest against the situation that prevailed after World War-II, not only in England but outside England as well. The period is full of moral perplexity and uncertainty. The gap between the poor and the rich has been widened. In such a confused and chaotic time, writers came to the rescue of common men. Arnold Wesker is one of those writers who has made a significant contribution to the New Wave of English Drama. Most of Wesker’s plays illustrate the social and cultural poverty of the working class. His earliest play The Kitchen (1959) is a documentary on the lives of the working class people. In this play, Wesker is criticizing the meaningless and mechanical life of the contemporary working class people. This paper is a theatrical representation of the experiences of alienation and frustrations of working class in the capitalist society.

Keywords: Alienation, Kitchen, Dehumanization, Society, Working Class

The literary works of 1950’s are seen as a protest against the situation that prevailed after World War-II, not only in England but outside England as well. The major playwrights of this age are Osborne, Wesker, Arden and Pinter. This playwright of fifties “feels himself inside the society he is writing about, the fears and frustrations of his character are his own, or even if he does not share them he can sympathies with them.” (Bamber Gascoigne, Twentieth-Century Drama). To understand why these writers wrote such works, it is necessary to look back and to know the factors which are responsible for the present situation and scenario.

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Dr. Vandana Goyal, M.A, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Government Post Graduate College
Hisar 125001
Haryana
India
vandanagoyal16@gmail.com
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