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...silence that follows, three empty harnesses dangle from their ropes, and the remorseful Magnus goes to put white makeup on his face. In the final scene an all-white figure is riding the donkey as the circus moves on. Is it the clown-or the puppeteer-or Everyman-or Christ...
Epitaph for Everyman. Before he is done, Golding has stripped Jocelin of every last shred of selfdelusion. Jocelin thought he had, at least, been chosen by God for his post in the cathedral. He finds that the choosers in fact were the king and his paramour (Jocelin's aunt) who pleased the king and asked a favor for her nephew. He thinks his vision of the spire is divinely inspired - but Golding insistently suggests that it may just as well be a phallic sublimation of Jocelin's repressed yearnings for the red-haired wife of a cathedral worker...
Even more than his father, Jamie is drawn to local characters. At Swarthmore he shows a translucent, almost Flemish portrait of Lester, which suggests that everyman's mind, like the dumbest, claws at his own furthest limits of knowing the world. Another portrait is Shorty, which sets a stubble-faced recluse incongruously in a sleek green silk wingback chair. (Soon after the portrait was finished, Shorty burned to death in his shack.) An eerie vision of a Mushroom Picker in the subterranean farms of Pennsylvania casts the tiny fungus caps in an almost surreal drama of light and shadow...
...GUEST. On film, Harold Pinter's The Caretaker retains much of the eerie fascination it generated onstage. Donald Pleasence repeats his matchless performance as the raving old derelict whose war with existence may or may not be Everyman...
...GUEST. On film, Harold Pinter's The Caretaker retains much of the eerie fascination it generated onstage. Donald Pleasence repeats his matchless performance as the raving old derelict whose war with existence may or may not be Everyman...