Abstract
The study attempted to help shape a fuller and deeper understanding of man-woman relationships and its attendant tensions, complications and intricacies seen and refracted through the feminist perspective and psychoanalytic lens. To achieve this objective, three selected Palanca award winning plays in the Philippines were critically examined to this end: The Chieftain’s Daughter by Felix Clemente, Celadons by Dhelia Racines, and Brisbane by Bobby Flores Villasis. Freudian psychoanalytic criticism and feminist perspective guided the analysis and interpretation of the text. It aimed to identify the type of man-woman conflicts in each play and the literary devices which are employed in the plays. It also aimed to examine the confluence factors which underlie the conflicts and the insights into the man-woman relationship conveyed by the selected plays. Based on the analysis, among the devices used to highlight the conflict were dialectics and symbolism. Some of the underlying factors which affect the conflicts were the pressure of traditional value and practices, greed, and insecurities. Thus, this study unveiled the nature of gender and conflict and the understanding of the man-woman relationships through the intervention or mediation of literature.
Highlights
1 Man and woman represent two different sexes that play an important role in the making of a society
Aside from the visible differences—e.g. anatomical, biological or hormonal and other real differences such as those having to do with emotions, speech or language use, interests and needs—there is the question of how modern individual can relate constructively to the problematic categories “masculine” and “feminine”
Is there really an androcentric or phallogocentric point of view that has held way through the ages, subordinating, excluding or marginalizing the female point of view? To what extent do the differences between man and woman explain or account for man-woman conflicts? These are categories that seem to determine the perspectives people use to understand themselves and others, yet are lacking in concreteness, making them the source of sweeping generalizations which always carry profound exceptions
Summary
1 Man and woman represent two different sexes that play an important role in the making of a society. These two are the crown of God’s creations---“a little between the angels— the differences between them have remained an unbridgeable gulf, and tend to initiate clashes. Mention of man-woman relationship immediately connotes or conjures up variability, differences or contrast and potential conflict. Such binary divides public/private and the nature civilization domains have been the subject of incessant debate, as the ontological basis of the differences between man and woman
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