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How does Pinter convey the struggle behind Deborah's "awakening" to an audience in his play "A kind of Alaska"?
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How does Pinter convey the struggle behind Deborah's "awakening" to an audience in his play? "A kind of Alaska" At the moment we are studying a play called "A kind of Alaska". It is about a young woman who had an illness from when she was 15, she has been asleep for 29 years, and has now only just been woken up by an injection, but she struggles all through the play to understand that she is not 15 any more she is a grown women. Deborah has a mind of a 15year old but the body of a 44year old. You can see as soon as Deborah wakes up that she is struggling as she uses past tense, here is a quote from the play to show this, "Who is it? It is miles away. The rain is falling. I will get wet." She also struggles to get sound out if her mouth as she whispers. There...
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