Abstract
This article is in the interest of the representation of the ‘island’, the stage of the 18th century French comedy writer Marivaux’s <The Island of Slaves>, <The Island of Reason>, and <The Colony>, contemplating what the writer ultimately intends to realize through the role and function of the island in the development of the plot. The writer reduces various aspects of the real society and human groups into the imaginary space of ‘island’: its’ ‘spatial representation’ would seem to embody a utopia reversing the established order. However it functions as a ‘space of recognition’ where characters look into their own illusionary image in society, and as a space of healing and recovery, revealing the human truth behind the false mask. Therefore, Marivaux’s island is a ‘symbolic space’, which embodies a ‘world of truth’ leading to human understanding.
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