MOONLIGHT

HEADLINE:

Author: Harold Pinter

Title: Moonlight

Editorial: Faber & Faber

Year of publication: 1993

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Bridget: She is the sister of Fred and Jake. She is the littlest and the most necessitous. She suicide herself because she see her father drunk and this affects her a lot. During all the play it remember her childhood. She is a discreet person and she likes be alone.

Andy: He is the father of the family. The dead of his daughter upset him. He is few attentive, alcoholic, very angry and quite familiar. When he discover his illness and he knows that he is going to die, he laments about all the things that he had done bad, to had been a bad person and to tract bad to his sons talking always with bad manners.

Bel: She is the mother of the family. A good woman. She is the mediator between her sons and her husband and she cares him due to he is ill.

Fred: She is the older brother of Bridget and Jake. He ignore his father; he doesn’t want to know nothing about him because he blames him about the dead of his sister and to pass a bad infancy. He lives with his litter brother who want to separate of his father. As Bridget, he is a discreet person.

Jake: He is the brother of Bridget and Fred. He is the median. He does all that Fred says.

Mary and Ralph: They are youth friends of Andy and Bel. They had a lot of problems between them. These are who tells to Fred and Jake that their father is ill and when Bridget dies they end the relation with Bel and Andy.

PLOT:

It’s a tragedy that talks about the life of a family. The father is ill, maybe mentally and caused by the death of his daughter Bridget. Bel cares a lot of her husband because she is the only thing that he has and she is the intermediary between him and her sons to the relation was good; but she doesn’t obtain nothing. One day, Bel call to her sons Fred and Jake and she says that their father doesn’t feel well, but now they don’t want to know nothing. The play ends when Bridget goes to the party that her fathers talked and to go there, there weren’t any party, and she get alone, sitting, waiting that the moon goes and the sun comes.

SPACE:

The space is the house where lives Bel and Andy and the house where lives Fred and Jake.

TIME:

The time is the present actual. There are jumps in the time and it’s not very coherent. The actions are not successive, there are disordered. Sometimes talks Bridget that is dead and later his family.

STYLISTIC AND LITERARY RESOURCES:

It is written in prose with a colloquial, simply and lower language that it could be understand quite well.

PERSONAL OPINION:

This plays although to be inside of the absurd theatre had more sense so I could understand better and y like it , it’s more entertaining.