Abuse and Theater: The Dynamics of Power in Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Revista de Lenguas Modernas

José Roberto Saravia Vargas¹  Juan Carlos Saravia Vargas¹ 

[1] Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Lenguas Modernas;

关键词: Theater of Cruelty;    Martin McDonagh;    The Beauty Queen of Leenane;    power;    mother-daughter bond;    identity;   

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【 摘 要 】

Occasional tension in families springs from power conflicts between individuals of different ages. Psychology has studied the particular tension between mothers and daughters and compiled several observations on it in a theory termed “the mother-daughter bond.” Martin McDonagh’s play The Beauty Queen of Leenane manifests the struggle between a mother and her daughter to claim power and, in so doing, they actively oppress one another until the annhilation of one of them becomes the final consequence of an ongoing circle of abuse. Such dysfunctional relationship manifests the degeneration of the mother-daughter bond and provides an explanation for the brutality of the two central characters in McDonagh’s play.

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