The Pillowman Essays

I chose to produce The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh simply because dark comedy is my favorite genre and this play has quite a few concepts that would be considered “taboo” or topics that should be talked about on a regular basis, but aren’t due to the fact that it is potentially uncomfortable subjects. Some examples of the taboo topics in the play are government systems, media coverage, and mental illness. The audience intended for this play is adults, being that the plotline includes more risky/disturbing

In the texts The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh (2003) and Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (1989) the patterns of cause and effect are rife throughout the stories. In The Pillowman the character Michal kills two children because he says his brother Katurian's stories told him to do so. The cause and effect here is mainly of a Mental sort, writing being something that affects the brain causing it to act. Whereas in Geek Love the most prominent cause and effect comes from the parents of the main protagonists

What do murder, storytelling, and brotherly love have in common? It all goes back to this twisted tale, The Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh. The play starts off with Katurian in an interrogation room, blindfolded and confused. He is immediately told to take off his blindfold because it looks “stupid”, according to Tupolski (5). Tupolski is one of the two investigators that are interrogating Katurian and Michael, along with Ariel Without directly telling him, Tupolski and Ariel start to ask about Katurian’s

A fantasy world is something always happens in stories and films. Both The Pillowman and The Pan’s Labyrinth include a fantastic imaginary world, it is obviously an escape from harsh reality to some extent. But one is pessimistic, one gives hope. The following essay will explain more about differences of fantasy world in the two stories. How a fantasy world reflects psychological feeling inside our mind. First of all, fantasy world can help to escape from reality. But how? As the fantasy world is

One of the most interesting factors in McDonagh’s The Pillowman is the different types of violence in the play those are somehow justified and are treated in such an intricate and complex way that it becomes really hard to know the boundaries between who is the victim and who is the perpetrator. During the play, these types of violence can be touched by the audiences easily. The only thing that is necessary for people, is just to understand the different types of violence. As it mentioned

Martin McDonagh is an Irish playwright who wrote The Pillowman in 2003. He is the master of the horror comedy who poses this fact whether a life of horror is worth living at all. So, he starts by representing the horrific sexuality, injured bodies and so much blood on stage. At the same time, so many paradoxes, the same as innocence and darkness, are beside each other that emphasizes the grotesque situation. The audiences experience so many negative feelings such as violence, disgust, fear and grotesque