1. 1. TRIVIA IN MODERN LITERATURE Prepared by : Komal Shahedapuri Roll No : 14 Paper 9 : Modernist Literature M.A (English) : Sem -3 Enrollment No : 2069108420170027 Batch : 2016-18 Email ID : komaltara1311@gmail.com Submitted to : Smt .S. B Gardi , Department of English, M . K Bhavnagar University.
2. 2. WHAT IS TRIVIA ? Trivia is unimportant facts or details that are considered to be amusing rather than serious or useful. It is all about our routine schedule, things which are necessary but not important. Its an anti-Aristotelian idea which believe that great things/events are basic canon of literature. Ex, Hamlet but in Postmodernism, all common/trivial things are basic canon of literature.
3. 3. TRIVIA IN THE BIRTHDAY PARTY The subject in both the play and film seems to be Trivia, the atmosphere of menace created through trivial objects. Trivia magnified in movie more than the play through the camera language, magnification techniques and sound & visual effects. Harold Pinters purpose in both film and play is to magnify trivia.
4. 4. CONTINUE. Trivial Objects Drum Newspaper Cooking Spectacles Mirror Doors Street Light Mess in Stanleys room Chairs and Birds Window
5. 5. CONTINUE.. Trivial Dialogues like Meg : What is it Girl or Boy? Id be sorry, Id rather have a little boy. Goldberg and McCann : Why did you kill your wife and how? Why did you dont marry her ? she is waiting in the Church. Why did you change your name? Petey: Dont let them tell you what to do. Interrogation and Birthday Party Scenes Blind man's Buff game is too common or normal but have deep meaning.
6. 6. WAITING FOR GODOT Samuel Beckett has also used Triviality in his play Waiting for Godot to give deep and important lessons of life. Most of the dialogues and actions that happen between two major characters Estragon and Vladimir are almost trivial but left the deep messages. By the use of triviality, author wants to give deep and significant message to the audience.
7. 7. CONTINUE In essay The Search for Self, Martin Esslin said that when play was performed in front of the prisoners in a jail , they can understand the deep message of the play because they can relate their own situations with the play. But among the normal audience who dont know anything about the play or literary aspects, they cant understand play in a proper way that which meaning play wants to convey to the audience. In play Breath, Beckett has also used trivial objects to convey deeper meaning like mess of fruits, medical objects etc with menacing sound.
8. 8. Trivial Objects/Characters Boy as messenger Pozzo as a Master Lucky as a Slave Vladimir as Practical man Estragon as a Poet Country Road Hats & Boots Tree Debris Night & Moon
9. 9. Estragon : Nothing to be done.. Estragon: Let's go. Vladimir: We can't. Estragon : Why not? Vladimir : We're waiting for Godot. Estragon: Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful! ESTRAGON: What is it? VLADIMIR: I don't know. A willow. ESTRAGON: Where are the leaves? VLADIMIR: It must be dead. ESTRAGON: No more weeping. VLADIMIR: Or perhaps it's not the season. ESTRAGON: Looks to me more like a bush. VLADIMIR: A shrub. ESTRAGON: A bush. Trivial Dialogues
10. 10. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Simple plot not of great events but routine lifestyle signify important aspects of life. Trivial Objects signify deep meanings Cutting image of Refrigerator Boars Skull Painting Lighthouse Fishermans story
11. 11. TRIVIAL BOLLYWOOD SONGS Examples, Sooraj Dooba Hai from movie Roy , , , Bezubaan from movie Piku
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