ABSTRACT
Individual responsibility for a character’s own destruction was already dramatized on the private level in Pinter’s first play The Room, a one-act where Rose fights throughout to cling to the illusory safety of her room. The ethic in Pinter’s work plays through seemingly endless variations on the dominant/subservient power struggle from this first play where Rose believes she has no choice to Pinter’s recent torture plays where a seated blindfolded character in fact may be without choice even to speak out in his own defense. Yet Pinter’s latest play Moonlight restores the centrality of choice and responsibility as all Pinter’s plays preserve choice and freedom at the forefront of the values portrayed.
