Horror and Terror in Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language: A Posthuman Approach

The aim of the present paper is to study Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language employing a posthuman lens of investigation. In line with his other play, One for the Road, this play is also celebrated as one of the most paradigmatic examples of Pinter’s political phase. Mountain Language is primarily concerned with the ways in which power relations occur and operate between the dominant agents of the State and the oppressed victims. This paper takes into consideration the posthuman situation as a fulcrum of its theoretical background which is mostly achieved through the prohibition of the native language of the subjugated people. All through this study, we will discuss the ways in which the world of Pinter’s play divulges the indomitable power of language and how this mechanism can be employed as a forceful ideological apparatus to terrorize the play’s characters.

Keywords:

terror , posthumanism , anti-humanism , decay of language , ideological supremacy.