Question- What are the issue of misogyny and gender in Harold Pinter's Homecoming?

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How is gender presented in the play the "homecoming."?

Answer -

For being such a quiet and serene women; Ruth has powerful effect on the men of the family. Lenny is the first to experience her power when she turns the tables. On him in their first conversation. She also holds her own in the negotiation about her future role in the family, procuring everthing she wants For Joey, Ruth is powerful sexual force, and even though we don't know exactly what happened in the bedroom, Max also close his edge when his plan for Ruth to stay becomes fully dicated by her terms. Overall he men assert their desire to dominate Ruth throughout the play, but by the end the exact opposite appears to have happened.

The gender conflict in "The Homecoming" is presented mainly through patriarchal power. The character of Max uses verbal violence in order to dominate those around him.

Important Explanations

1.

"What do you think of the found Big, is a part? It is a big house. I mean, it's a fine, room, don't you think? Actually there was a wall, across there, with a door we knocked it down in years age to make an open living we. The structure wasn't affected you see. My another was dead.

Reference: These lines have been taken from the play famous Two Act Play. The Homecoming written by Harold Pinter.

Explanation with Context: This is Act I and this is the speech of Teddy who's the son of Mau are Teddy has been living is the United States for six years, out of contact with his North, London family, which still live in his childhood home with the inkhorn of introducing his wife, Ruth, he pays his family a visit. The file refer not only to Teddy is return but also to Ruth's now and unexpected place in Teddy's non-traditional to him. So in these lines. Teddy has and in his come to his home with Ruth and he's asking his wife for his childhood room for the maintenance room.

So, these words are spoken by Teddy, Ruth's husband, he tells her about his childhood room and ask for thinking about it good or bad, small or big. He says that it is a big house. He means to say that the room is very fine because it is his childhood room and he loves it very much. He tells there was it wall in the room. He remembers his enjoy full day at the early age if his life. He says to her that his mother was no more six year age. These was a big dress and it was open but that structure was not affected for us.

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(1) Simple language
(2) My mother was dead in this line the emotions and feelings are presented.

2.

Well, It's a long time since the whole family was together, eh? If only your mother was alive. Eh, what do you say, Sum? What would Tessie say if she was alive? Sitting her to with her three sons. Three fine grown up lads. And a lovely daughter in law. The only shame is her grant children even't have. She'd have petted them and cubed over them revival n't she, seem? she'd have fussed over them and played with them told them stories, tickled them - I tell you she'd have been hysterical.

Reference: As above.

Explanation with Context: This is the Act two these worlds the spoken by Max, the father of Teddy, in this scene, Max sits with his family members and becoming very happy to see at together. He shares his happy feeling to all members of family and remembers his wife.

This speech is spokes by Max who is very happy with his family. He says that today the whole family was together after a long time. He shares his memory to all telling that if his wife was alive today, becomes very happy. He asks sum (his, brother) what he wants to serf about this topic.

In this scene, he introduces Jessie who is his wife. If Jessie was alive today she be avid become very happy. She also sits with her three sons and sees fine grown-up them together and a lovely daughter-in-law Ruth. Her grand children would be played here with his uncle and grand uncle sons and we would tell a stories to grand children. He says again and again that she would become very happy to see this lovely family altogether. Thus Max remembers his wife very much.

Note: This Max's speech shows his love for his late wife Jessie.

3.

I was angry - most of my life............
Not anymore - if you can believe that.
First crazy now, that's an improvement.
Not really crazy, Eccentric But those years, morning to night.
All that anger - you can choke swallowing back anger.

Reference: These lines have been taken from the two act play written in 1964 by Harold Pinter. On first appearances Pinter's the Home coming, seems to fit the theory of the theatre of the Absurd. It initially presents the reader with an absurd setting, where by the back wall has been removed.

Explanation with Context: Dicey and her siblings have gone their entire life up to the point their mother abandons them without really even knowing they had grand-mother somewhere. And the reverse is true as well. In a novel powered by complex characters, Gram is probably the most complicated as well as for most modern readers the most difficult to fully understand. She belongs to a different time in which wives were expected to live up to that most prickly of wedding bows "to honour and obey their husbands. She honoured the marriage vows by obeying them and it first so happened that this decision runs parallel to obeying her husband if not necessarily abiding by the honour part.

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It means the patient won't respond to anything. Your mother - well, She doesn't do anything doesn't speak, doesn't seem to hear what's said to her, won't feed herself, wont more at all, not even to go to bathroom. When they found out about her family, the doctors tried talking to her about you. No response. No response at all. Nothing. They think she is incurable.

Reference : As above.

Explanation with Context: These lines spoken by Sergeant Gordo. The "It" to which the police officer is referring is the term "Catatonic". This describes the state in which Dicey's mother is then currently existing in a Massachusetts state-run psychiartic hospital or, as it was time - when one was exercising the utmost in diplomacy - an asylum. Lots of stories have been told about keats suddenly orphaned as a result of eiter will full or forced abandonment by their lone caretaking parent, but the majority of those tend to lead toward a happy ending that concludes on a note of optimistic reunion.

Adding fuel to that particular fire is that this information which is conveyed to Dicey about the mental condition and emotional state of her mother is the type of thing that usually comes near the end of the story. In this particular instance, this information comes to Dicey are almost precisely the very midway point of the tale. Although the quotes chosen here may naturally lead one to expect that homecoming is relentlessly depressing, that would be a significantly off base misperception.

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