DOMINATION, SERVITUDE AND COMMODITY FETISHISM IN HAROLD PINTER’S THE HOMECOMING

The struggle for domination clearly persists in Homecoming as it does almost all of Pinter’s works. Because the vague atmosphere, enigmatic characters, and dark, tragicomic dialogue action, a single decisive meaning play cannot be identified. Many character analyses have been carried out on play, frequently focusing Ruth her decision at end. Moreover, critics sought to read light psychoanalysis, centering characters’ past complexes. By adding sociopolitical dimension purely realistic or symbolic readings, this article attempts analyze relationships servitude between characters micro-level family structure through Marx’s notions fetishism relations individuals, commodity expounded by Slavoj Žižek. With help Žižek’s ideas ideology, new layer signification held is added, particularly that men, which seen parallel macro-level fetishized pre-capitalist societies capitalist one.