Deception and betrayal in Harold Pinter’s The Dwarfs

Abstract

This paper aims at showing the devastating deception that surrounding the characters in Pinter’s play The Dwarfs. The Dwarfs as a play is very unintelligible on stage as Pinter himself admitted in one of the interviews saying that the staging of the play was “regretted by everyone except me to do The Dwarfs which is apparently the very intractable and impossible piece of work. It is basically a play that illustrates the deep and vivid sense of betrayal, deception, illusion and love.