Relationships between women in Sarah Daniels' play "Neaptide"

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Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam (2005) Relationships between women in Sarah Daniels' play "Neaptide". Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 13 (1). pp. 67-82. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534

Abstract

This paper is an exploration of female relationships using feminist and psychoanalytic approaches in reading a British play "Neaptide." The findings provide us a unique way of explaining the bondage between mother-daughter relationships, and it also tells us that in the play "Neaptide" Sarah Daniels offers a positive future to her two female protagonists because both have been rescued by their mother Joyce. Daniels uses the Demeter-Persephone myth to illustrate the limited choices that her female character Joyce has in handling her family crisis. Like Demeter,Joyce keeps her family together by delivering them from male domination: Val from her unhappy marriage with Colin, and Claire and Poppy from the devious and ruthless Lawrence. Claire's bold and honest public confession of herself as a lesbian has clearly entailed suffering and sacrifice. However, Joyce has made the right decision to help both her daughters to get out of their predicaments.

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Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Modern Language and Communication
Publisher:	Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
Keywords:	Female solidarity; Lesbian-feminist approach; Sarah Daniels; Coming out; Pre-oedipal bonding; Psychoanalysis; Female bonding; Lesbianism; British playwright
Depositing User:	Nur Izyan Mohd Zaki
Date Deposited:	30 Nov 2009 01:01
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2015 04:02
URI:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3510
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