| Sumario: | This paper analyzes the amalgamation of absurdism and realism in Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. The Dumb Waiter is the last of three earliest plays by Pinter that possesses the traits of the Theatre of the Absurd. The play projects the life of two hired killers during one of their missions and is highly flavored with realistic essence, which is mostly in contradiction with the principles of the Theatre of the Absurd. But due to the amalgam of absurdism and realism in Pinter's oeuvre, finding the realistic streaks in his works is not a tough task. Behind the thick layer of absurdity in The Dumb Waiter, the real characters with internal fears depict the pathetic status of a powerless man in a menacing atmosphere. The characters' futile struggle to protect themselves from their powerful master is rendered realistically.
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