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

Displays of fierceness in Kanes Blasted, Bonds Lear and Pinters The Homecoming In Sarah Kanes Blasted, a fair sex 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 a nonher is blinded, and the body of a fair sex is disected on stage. Both Kane and Bond claim that the use of violence on stage is vital for the message they want to get across. Harold Pinter, however, seems to deliver the alike(p) message by referring to violence without unquestionablely displaying it on stage. By feel at the authors reasons for staging violence, questioning the effect on the plays audience and the plausability and essential of the unfounded acts on stage, it potful be said that the portrayal of somatic violence on stage is a hallmark of shallow melodrama, gratuitously pandering to the sensationalism of the audience. Sarah Kanes intention was to prese nt her audience with the revulsions of real life war, abrasiveness and death, in the hope to bring it closer to the audience and to get good deal to think some 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 proved by comparing the behaviour of animals in their natural surroundings with animals in captivity. ... in normal surroundings and conditions, members of the same spec... ...al executions on stage would hade do 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 even 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. London 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.