Stručni rad
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Contrasted – Rebellion, Transgression, Excommunication, Exile
Mirna Čudić
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Sažetak
The article aims at a comparative analysis of the motives of rebellion and exile (perceived both as geographic and inner exile), appearing as leitmotifs in two chosen plays, The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. In order to theoretically support these arguments, the thematic method has been chosen, consisting in the comparison of leitmotifs in the works of literature pertaining to different literary periods, and, consequently, diverging world views, along with the tenets of the sociology of knowledge as elaborated by Karl Mannheim which examines the relationship between the pondering individual and their social surroundings. While Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, being a typical Renaissance play, in the characters of the rebellious King Leontes and his unjustly exiled wife Hermione, and their passage through the fairy-tale world of the Bohemian utopia, succeeds in solving the principal dramatic conflict (agon), and achieves catharsis in the final harmonious reconciliation, in Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire the oneiric world of chivalric ideals of the South, the land of origin of Blanche DuBois, the female protagonist torn by a typically modernist existential restlessness, serves only to deepen the insurmountable abyss which separates her from the dystopian environment she has been trapped in, thereby stigmatising her as a perpetual rebel and outcast.
Ključne riječi
The Winter’s Tale; A Streetcar Named Desire; rebellion; exile; utopia, dystopia
Hrčak ID:
171299
URI
Datum izdavanja:
12.12.2016.
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