Silence in Harold Pinter's Plays
Abstract
Silence is, in its literal meaning, an act that is expected by the listener to listen to a speech or from people in reading something in any place, but silence is sometimes accidental when no one perceives it as silence. It is inevitably act in some occasions. Linguistically speaking, silence and speech live symbiosis. One depends on another. Thus, it can be said that silence becomes the reverse as well as the integral part of speech. We can also say that no silence without speech and vice versa, i.e. silence or human silence expresses different emotions in human beings for an instance, embarrassment, joy, grief, emotion defense, envy, love, hate, disgust, withdrawal or sulking and for this respect silence carries meaning.