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In Landscape, Harold Pinter shows audience a play with the theme of loneliness. The content of human isolation and separation is dramatized through the form of isolation in two ways. One way is to use visual image and stage setting. As a static drama, action and movement on the stage is kept to a minimum and stage settings also contribute to hinting the loneliness and isolation between characters. Pinter uses non-verbal language pattern in order to separate two characters, Duff and Beth. It is the landscape seen on the stage. The other way is to make two characters tell their own monologues, which are mostly past memories. In the operation of memory, the past can be represented in the present and at that time Pinter’s characters create their own desirable self-image. With the purpose of escaping from the present fear and dissatisfaction and getting better identity, they manipulate stories and find refuges of the self from the real life. It is the landscape heard in stories. While observing two characters giving alternating monologues, audience can realize the real human condition by active participation. At last, we can realize that the form of the play is good for conveying the theme of the play, i.e. loneliness, unability to communicate, and solitude.