A Comparative Investigation of The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh and The Prince Ehtejab by Hooshang Golshiri Based on Kristeva’s Abjection Theory

Document Type : Original Research

Authors
Narges Bagheri 1
mohammadnabi tavallaei 2
1 kharazmi university
2 urmia university
Abstract
According to the “Theory of Abjection”, the subject, upon entering the domain of the symbolic order, considers what he recognizes as alien and dangerous object for the borders of his subjectivity as “abjection” and tries to reject it. Julia Kristeva considers the literary text as a superior sign of abjection, a place where the author displays the contamination of people's souls and whatever causes these contamination, so that people can achieve exaltation and purification by using words and phrases and creating a suitable atmosphere. The present study, with descriptive analytical method, investigates and compares abjection in two works of The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Prince Ehtjab from two different countries in order to investigate the root of traumas and abjections of the Prince and Maureen’s soul through symbolic order. These two characters are looking for their innocence and removing the abjections from their lives, and they imagine that they are trying to join the pure order. In this regard, they use various methods such as denying the mother-child relationship, denying the mother as an abjection, trying to defend the privacy of subjectivity, struggling to remove the abjection and using unpleasant words. But in the end, their efforts are useless and they themselves have somehow become abjected, their hands are bloodstained and they drown into nothingness.

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