An Althusserian Reading of Harold Pinter's One for the Road


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Aydogdu M.

TARIH KULTUR VE SANAT ARASTIRMALARI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF HISTORY CULTURE AND ART RESEARCH, cilt.3, sa.1, ss.1-11, 2014 (Hakemli Dergi) identifier

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Louis Althusser in his seminal essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1970) discusses the ways through which a State dominates/subjugates its subjects by means of Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses, the effects of which are traceable in Harold Pinter's 1984-play One for the Road. Within this scope, this paper seeks to examine Pinter's one-act play from an Althusserian point of view with a view to demonstrating the manipulative influence of ISAs and SA on the creation of subjects who would serve for the State.