Comparing Violence in Kanes Blasted, Bonds Lear and Pinters The Home

Displays of Violence in Kanes Blasted, Bonds Lear and Pinters The Homecoming In Sarah Kanes Blasted, a wo art object and a man are raped on stage, eyeballs and dead babies are consumed and a man shoots himself through the head. In Edward Bonds Lear, several men and women are shot, a man is severly beaten and another is blinded, and the body of a woman is disected on stage. Both Kane and Bond claim that the use of emphasis on stage is vital for the meat they want to view across. Harold Pinter, however, seems to deliver the same message by referring to violence without actually displaying it on stage. By looking at the authors reasons for staging violence, questioning the answer on the plays audience and the plausability and necessity of the violent acts on stage, it can be said that the portrayal of physical violence on stage is a assay-mark of shallow melodrama, gratuitously pandering to the sensationalism of the audience. Sarah Kanes intention was to present her audience with the abominations of real life war, cruelty and death, in the hope to bring it closer to the audience and to get people to think about what was happening beyond their safe homes, for instance in Jugoslawia, by drawing comparisons between local and global violence. She felt the horror of the war in Jugoslawia very strongly herself, and suffered from depressions that drove her to suicide in 1999. In the preface to Lear, Edward Bond says that it would be immoral not to write about violence (v). He claims that violence originates through unnatural circumstances, and that this can be proven by comparing the behaviour of animals in their natural surroundings with animals in captivity. ... in average surroundings and conditions, members of the same spec... ...al executions on stage would hade made it shows the human side of violence, namely that of the victims. As a conclusion it can be said that, although the violence itself is well-argumented by the authors and serves its purpose in the plot, the actual act of violence needs not be shown on stage. It does not contribute to the plot, and its shockeffects are questionable. Furthermore, it might unconstipated make people aggressive. Staging violence turns the action into melodrama it can no longer be distuinguised from the violent actionfilms meant to entertain and lure people to the cinema.Works Cited Bond, Edward. Lear. capital of the United Kingdom Eyre Methuen LTD, 1972.Abelard. Children and Television Violence Gerbner. Online. Internet. 2 July 2002.Kane, Sarah. Blasted. London Eyre Methuen LTD, 1995.Pinter, Harold. The Homecoming. London Eyre Methuen LTD, 1965.