Postmodern Fragmented Reality: Echoes of War and Cannibalistic Humans in Sarah Kane’ s Blasted
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https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.Vol63.Iss2.4401کلمات کلیدی:
Fragmented reality, War, Violence, Blasted, Cannibalism.چکیده
The shock or the In Yer Face Theatre of the 1990s deal with devastating, horrendous, taboo, and violent subjects for the postmodern British spectators. Hence, Sarah Kane is considered as one of the most influential leading dramatists with her most daring and psychological plays. Her play Blasted (1995) explores various aspects of the In Yer Face Theatre, hence, this study delves into human psyche in the most appalling and war-like situations; albeit the postmodern dramatic and fictional technique ‘fragmentation” is put into use to unleash human condition. Thus, the reality that the characters try to describe become shattered and split as their psychological states deteriorate at war. This paper investigates how under the shadow of war, characters change, and the violence they show is become unpredictable and women unleash their suppression, men, in their attempt to escape war are forced to be cannibalistic.
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