Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatları, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2022
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: MERVE HANÇER
Danışman: Yiğit Sümbül
Özet:
While the Irish struggled to liberate themselves from the oppression of their colonizer,
England, and claim their independence, Irish people found themselves entrapped within the
social structures —institutions— of Irish society. These institutions such as family, church,
state, gender and social class set the rules for proper conduct for Irish people. In the face of
such impositions and societal assertiveness, Irish people experienced an ‘identity crisis’
splitting their selves into two as their true self, whom they reveal to no one but themselves;
and their social self, who is conformist and submissive, in order to align with the salient social
identities. However, all the characters dealt with in this thesis – Gareth O’Donnell, Kenneth
Pyper and Woman – attempt to disavow the rules and laws of these institutions to preserve
their identities. These characters, in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Frank
McGuinness’s Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and Marina Carr’s
Woman and Scarecrow, experience a splitting of the self and appear on the stage with their
defying the power wielded by the institutions so as not to be cornered by their rules and laws.
This thesis, by dealing with taboo subjects such as family, nationalism, gender and social class
in Irish society as reflected in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Frank McGuinness’s
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and Marina Carr’s Woman and
Scarecrow, will examine the split selves of the three main characters in these plays with
regards to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s theory of schizoanalysis. The theory of
schizoanalysis regards the notion of ‘split self’ into social and self-identity as an escape from
social and political pressures rather than a mental illness. In addition, this theory considers
‘split self’, or ‘schizophrenia’ in a more general sense, as individuals’ ability to escape from
oppression and to externalise and realise their suppressed desires. In this thesis, the main
characters’ splitting and their appearance on the stage alongside their split selves that they
cannot reveal in the society will be analysed independently of their psychiatric and clinical
context, but as a result of the characters’ defying the rules imposed on them by social, cultural
and political institutions and their attempt to emancipate themselves from social oppression as
Deleuze and Guattari put forward.