The Theme of Loneliness in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker

It is generally known that the theme of loneliness is evident in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker (1959). The main characters of the play are often lonely either by an act of will , or rather due to some malign forces imposed on them . The basic interest of this paper is to shed light on the theme of loneliness as reflected in Pinter’s The Caretaker. Besides , the possibility to overcome one’s lonely condition will be questioned as expressed through the situation of an old tramp and a mentally unbalanced man .