In this view, the play shows, heartlessly, that the very capacity for love itself is sometimes based on betraying not only other loved ones, but even ourselves. Pinter's particular usage of reverse chronology in structuring the plot is innovative: the first scene takes place after the affair has ended, in 1.
The truth however, is that Robert has known about the affair for the past four years. She then lies to Jerry in telling him that. Emma meets Jerry to tell him that her marriage to Robert is over. 7, four years after exposing the affair (in 1. For five years Jerry and Emma carry on their affair without Robert's knowledge, both cuckolding Robert and betraying Judith, until Emma, without telling Jerry she has done so, admits her infidelity to Robert (in effect, betraying Jerry), although she continues their affair. Critically regarded as one of the English playwright's major dramatic works, it features his characteristically economical dialogue, characters' hidden emotions and veiled motivations, and their self- absorbed competitive one- upmanship, face- saving, dishonesty, and (self- )deceptions. Betrayal is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1.
