Churchill’s Personification and Embodiment of Nature’s Wrath and Women’s Infertility in The Skriker (1994) | ||||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||||
| Article 13, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2023, Page 479-508 PDF (431.84 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2022.171971.1831 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
شيماء شعبان زكريا 
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| جامعة الفيوم | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The major purpose of this section is to analyse and examine The Skriker, one of the greatest plays that were written by Churchill. This examination includes analysing the relation of the folklore creatures’ realm and the two women’s world, stressing the theme of women being abused and manipulated within the large system of patriarchy. Caryl Lesley Churchill is a prominent British playwright. She is popular for her interest in dramatizing the social and political manipulation of those in power; and hence, she is regarded as one of those feminists who took the mission of setting the principles and the themes of feminism on their shoulders. She was among the few female playwrights who could penetrate the canon of the British Theatre. The Skriker is Churchill’s most ambiguous play that was first performed in 1994. It revolves around the story of two girls, Lily and Josie, who are seduced by a mythical creature named the Skriker. The Skriker is a figure from the ancient past intended by Churchill to transform nature’s dissatisfaction with humans’ devastation and their unfair male-prejudiced hierarchy. Thus, it proclaims a fierce war against them in the pursuit for justice. Subsequent events present creatures, especially the Skriker, as manipulating, seducing and ultimately damaging the two female characters of the play. They strive to end humans’ alienation to nature and their blind prejudice to the masculine and the technological. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Churchill; Ecofeminism; Globalization; Transculturalism; Patriarchy | ||||
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