Mustafa Talib Jawad Alabbasi

The paper attempts to pick up specific points of Cormac McCarthy‟s The Sunset limited play by clarifying the existentialist philosophical problems that may lead an individual to commit suicide.This paper mainly regards Jean Paul Sartre‟s existentialist philosophy as prominent perspective that mimics the character of White. In accordance with Sartre‟s existentialistwritings, an individual is born a free, which means a man can decide or choose whatever is appropriate in life. All the challenges and struggles that a man may face in life are invaluable as long as death is the absolute bitter end of human beings. Sufferance is the dominant characteristic of life.Therefore, nothing meaningful deserves all the different images of suffering. However, on one hand, the paper shows these existentialist problems regarding Sartre‟s writing. On the other hand, it shows how such a philosophy mimics White‟s intention for committing suicide.

This paper attempts to yield a critical reading of Harold Pinter’s One for the Road (1985) regarding the theorist Hannah Arendt’s writings. Seemingly, Pinter’s play is one of these pieces that clarifies the principles on which totalitarians depended to widely spread their regimes, notions and dominate the nation or nations. However, the attempt of the paper has been made in analyzing Pinter’s text considering Arendt’s philosophy. In accordance with One for the Road, it shows how the totalitarians behavior is, how they depended on torturing their prisoners, and how their victims were threatened. It tries to clarify how the citizens or individuals were under unlimited danger that surrounding them while governed by totalitarians. These attempts lead to figure out whether or not Pinter’s text and behavior of Nicolas is a propagandist. Moreover, the paper reveals whether terror is a very part of propaganda or not, and how terror ideologically affects an individual.