Quest for Self Identity in J.M. Synge’sThe Play boy of the Western Worldand Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock

Abstract

Thepresent dissertation titled “Quest for Self Identity in J. M. Synge’sThe Playboyof the Western Worldand Sean O’Casey’sJuno and the Paycock” focus on the playwrights’ deep concern to the falsity and meanness that lies in the embodime of the myths designed by patriarchy for the males and females. By setting their play in the Irish background and by dramatizing theminute nuances of human characters, they have challenged the then theatrical trend of considering drama “an organ for the expression of national consciousness” and staging only the legendary and heroic stories. Thus, they have repudiated such myths and have mocked the social convention, history and religious orthodox beliefs that wilt women’s identity to the role of sweet blushing colleens, tolerant wives and sacrificing mothers. By presenti the men’s and women’s lives as failure in the parody, they have voiced for the destruction and elimination of the myths.