• Dr. Mangesh R. Adgokar

Harold Pinter is one of the major figures in contemporary drama and is best known for his blend of reality and illusion in his plays. It is difficult to demarcate the line between the reality and illusion of human action in his plays. The elusive nature of reality and illusion fill his plays with mysterious, suspense and ambiguities which are constant in conflict and collusion with each other in personal, social and psychological dimension of human action and consciousness. Pinter thinks that though the event of his plays apparently appears unfamiliar and vague, but they are as real as the ordinary life of human being which can be found anywhere, at any time, in any place in real life of ordinary man in the world. His plays are realistic in the sense that the people of his plays are the inhabitants of the same world where we belong. Pinter explains reality is as faulty as illusion which is not absolute qualities. The perception of reality is different to different persons so it is difficult to hold it. He generally engenders his plays with an image of situation and a couple characters from real life which further develops with entrance of intruders and fear of insiders. The present paper is an attempt to analysis of reality and illusion in The Homecoming.

Homecoming, reality, illusion, character, Ruth, Teddy, Max, Lenny, Sam, Joey

"An Analysis of Reality and Illusion in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.769-773, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901C04.pdf

"An Analysis of Reality and Illusion in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp769-773, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901C04.pdf