Existentialist Reading of Harold Pinter’s Slight Ache in the lens of Sartre
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The aim of this study is to discuss use of language, existential anguish and despair and man’s self-quest for identity demonstrate lack of meaning in life in characters in the Slight Ache. Choice and responsibility are two important factors for human life.
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Raouf Aminzadeh, Fatemeh Sadat Basirizadeh, Narges Raoufzadeh, & Shiva Zaheri Birgani. (2022). Existentialist Reading of Harold Pinter’s Slight Ache in the lens of Sartre. LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature, 3(2), 46-56. https://doi.org/10.33258/linglit.v3i2.719
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