Examine the title of the play The birthday Party
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From very beginning of the play we are introduced to the peripheries of life. First of all, the setting is not at home, but at a boarding house, which also faces the crisis of identity and recognition. Then at the query of Meg, the landlady of house, the birth of a baby is reported in the newspaper by her husband Petey who does not pay much attention to it. But on the contrary, his wife—possibly because of having no offspring, gets interested to the point of passing her judgement on the incident. In this way the concept of birthday is itself seen to be deconstructed at the very outset. Here the audience note an unconscious longing in Meg for possessing a son, and in the absence of any actual one she uses her husband and Staley later as surrogates who must behave as she wishes. In fact, she exploits her position as a food-provider. This ordinary activity from daily life gathers a ritualistic flavour if we relate her offering of fried bake to the birth of a baby somewhere in the town and to her blackmailing of Stanley with the threat of not giving him the breakfast in the case of his not following her command. Furthermore, excessive repeated emphasis on food may lead the reader to look for meaning in the Christian iconography.
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