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Do you think the Homecoming is a realistic play?The Homecoming is a play whose emphasis is too much on trying to be realistic thus creating a wholly unrealistic outlook on life.The Homecoming's sparse realism evolves from there being no guarantee that a visitor will possess a visitor's card detailing all his personal information. The desire for verification is often satisfied in a dramatically conventional play but in The Homecoming it is not. There is no hard distinction between what is real and what is unreal nor between what is true or false. The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression thus convincing the audience of The Homecoming being a series of individuals caught in the tangled web of life. When Teddy enters the audience knows nothing about him and there are virtually no 'clues'. Neither Teddy nor Ruth brings up their relation with the family until an indirect force causes Teddy to tell Ruth, "That's my father's chair". However, the lack of clarity makes the play seems unrealistically ambiguous. Throughout the play we are looking for clarification of what we suspect about Mac and Jessie. There is none, just as we are forbidden the comfort of an obvious meaning to the play.
The same applies to the other men in the play. Perhaps he is trying to convince himself. In real life, people are not built as representatives of certain qualities. It is possible, however, that Pinter intended the story and the characters to be unrealistic and for there to be no empathy with the characters giving an alienation effect where the audience can be less emotionally involved thus more objective. Using metaphors and symbolism, Pinter provokes an interpretation. In real life, things don't occur twice. Max seems weak and doesn't have the strength to interrupt and argue with Sam but his silence, doubting tone and rhetorical sentences make Sam seem even more desperate to convince him. By overloading on symbolism the play seems contrived. She does not follow a morality code concerning her sexuality but uses it as for survival and power. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**The Homecoming by Harold Pinter. Yet this could be Pinter's intention, for real life can be extremely irritating and uncontrollable. However, Lenny appears to have much more power than Max who seldom misses the opportunity to use his tongue degenerately. It is unrealistic that a man would be flirting with his brother's wife in such a blatantly obvious and crude manner and even more unrealistic that she would respond so openly, "Have a sip.
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