| Harold Pinter,2005Nobel Prize winner for Literature, has been recognized as the most distinguished British playwright in the second half of the20th century, and the word "Pinteresque" has been included in Oxford English Dictionary, which reveals his status in British drama history. The Nobel Prize for literature comment says:"his work reveals the crisis in the daily talk and breaks the door of the closed room." The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says,"Pinter let drama return to its most basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, characters between each other may be defeated, hypocrisy crumbles."Pinter’s early work The Homecoming demonstrated a series of the content about fantasy, which is about the dream of a wish or a desire to fulfill. This thesis analyzes the interpersonal desires in The Homecoming by using the psychoanalysis in Lacan’s theory of Desire to reveal the nature of humanity. This thesis consists of five parts.The first part is an introduction, which mainly introduces the academic researches on Pinter both at home and abroad, the main content of this thesis and the significance of this research.The second part is Theoretical basis. This part introduces Lacan’s main theories, especially his concept of Desire.The third part analyzes the desire between men and the desire between men and women with their interpersonal relationship as a platform, and their genders as a boundary. Ruth, the only woman in this play, won the final victory in the struggle of desire with men by using her own gender and body privilege.The forth part mainly discusses the menace produced by the desire. Desire not only has a result of winning or losing, but also has a strong sense of threat. On the way to homecoming, there is no family warmth, only worries about unfulfilled desire.The last part is the conclusion. By reviewing the previous parts, the author of the paper summarizes the desire theme in Pinter’s play. Reflections on humanity will also be given to help us control our fire of desire in heart. |
