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Author's Life Represented in His Works Kim, Gye-sook (Sangmyung University) Most writers say there are nothing to do with between their works and their private lives. Therefore, when someone asks the relationship between the works and author's lives, they usually deny the relationship. But there are many works of which characters are the mirror up to the author themselves. Especially Pinter's Betrayal illustrates his own marital crack-up. Pinter's plays are commonly triggered by a sharp memory of some personal experience. Pinter had utilized not just his own experience but also that of friends and acquaintances. He was to do the same in Betrayal. It is a play about the way of betryal of oneself and others through the whole system of human relationship. It also shows Pinter, more than in any of his previous plays, using directly the circumstances of his own life. As the author writes about actual events, his friends and lovers who see the play come out saying, “Oh, it's the story of my life.” Then using these materials is the author's moral dilemma? Author takes what he needs from actual experience and invests it with dramatic signification. But as Pinter says “there are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.” At the same time in place of the audience, we can sympathize liable characters more than ever before.