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Abstract
The traumatic experience of violence is a predominant feature of contemporary culture and especially in the realm of literature. Yet, love represents the most suitable solution for the human trauma. The paper, therefore, examines how love of different sorts can conduce to the healing of many traumatic experiences in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed. The play is a representation of the human trauma caused mainly by the growing instability during the 1990s which had a profound impact on the whole Europe. It is about a number of characters who live in a university campus, and they are subject to different traumas; but love helps them overcome these traumas in the end. Sarah Kane in her play Cleansed seems to be a more positive and hopeful person regardless of the fact that the first reading of the play may engender the impression that it expresses a sense of loss, trauma, and social disintegration, and this is somehow true.
Highlights
Sarah Kane (1971- 1999) is generally acclaimed to be one of the most outspoken playwrights who emerged in 1999s in Britain
Sarah Kane‟s drama has been paid a lot of attention by critics
Stratton quoted in Graham Saunders, About Kane: the Playwright & the Work, (London: Faber & Faber, 2009) , 73-74
Summary
Sarah Kane (1971- 1999) is generally acclaimed to be one of the most outspoken playwrights who emerged in 1999s in Britain. The theater of Sarah Kane handles the ever-increasing problem of violence that takes much of her thinking She herself was not in a safe shelter from violence; she was a victim of self-inflicted violence when she killed herself as a final resort to end her own personal dilemmas which are mainly embodied in her psychological disturbance and the lack of true love. In this regard, she explains how violence and her identity are closely connected: “My main source of thinking about how violence happens is myself, and in some ways all of my characters are me.” 8 Kane emphasizes that her themes explore the fundamental human problems, adding that “I am not writing about sexual politics. Kane‟s theater exemplifies the turbulent years in her epoch which is an age clearly marked by violence, chaos, and instability in the first place
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