Caryl Churchill's A number: multiple personalities in contemporary tragedy
Автор: Shilova Yevgenia
Журнал: Тропа. Современная британская литература в российских вузах @footpath
Рубрика: Articles on individual authors
Статья в выпуске: 6, 2012 года.
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The article dwells on Caryl Churchill's view of human identity as reflected in the play A Number. The main plot features a number of the protagonist's clones becoming aware of their «copy» status. However, analysis of the piece reveals that the ethics of cloning is not the playwright's major focus. Churchill is rather concerned with the very mechanism of self-definition and the features making every individual unique in the epoch of copies and consumerism. The writer puts forward the idea that the difficulty of self-identification nowadays is probably caused by distorted interpersonal relations and the destruction of family ties.
Caryl churchill, modern drama, cloning
Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/147228699
IDR: 147228699
Список литературы Caryl Churchill's A number: multiple personalities in contemporary tragedy
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