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- 2005.8
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After writing well known experimental plays working with Joint Stocks and The Monstrous Regiment, Caryl Churchill wrote The Striker by herself in 1994 reconstructing folklore and fairy-tale, along with presenting isolated and derelict teenaged girls’ affairs and situations. By reconstructing folklore and fairy-tale, Churchill expands the limits and constraint of time and space of the traditional plays. She also expands the meaning and images of words by using puns, rhymes and “Joycean language” for Skriker's dialogue which enables her to break time and logic. Churchill’s experimental attempt for The Striker continues to adopt Brecht’s epic form and expressionistic style: the monstrous and non-speaking twenty five figures work the independent roles of characters on stage throughout the play co-existing with Skriker, pregnant Lily and Josie who has killed her “ten days old” baby. The allegorical figures and Skriker bring the nightmare vision of a world in danger transforming an imaginary world into realistic one and showing dual images of human/beast or spirits, visibility/invisibility, past/present and real world/under world.
Churchill’s concern in The Skriker lies not in the characteristics or ideals of the two main teenage characters, Josie and Lily, but in the social, economic and gender-centric situations of the two girls. As Churchill stated in an interview, she wanted to “write a play of damage -damage to nature and damage to people,” the play is full of damaged images,- in appearance, language, and situation, especially in the mental and psychological conditions of the two girls. The damage Churchill stresses is the politically, socially, and gender-centric damaged system of Patriarchy where two teenage girls are isolated and abandoned without protection. She also stresses the idea of danger to the children through Josie’s act of infanticide that has occurred before the play opens, and that demonstrates the image of “damage” of Josie’s mental condition and maternal love.
Words change meaning with slight modification while phrases or puns multiply meanings by placing them in a different context, so that the substance of warning may be difficult to discern. However, Churchill demonstrates her warning through Josie and Lily’s closer friendship in the real world. The mental hospital scene where the pregnant Lily visits the mad Josie shows their closer friendship as well as their socially isolated and abandoned position that could be the mark of the destructive and damaged Skriker who brings children into the underworld. Josie’s good intention is to protect Lily from Skriker but always fails against Lily’s good intention to help the shape shifting Skriker. The difference between the two girls is that Josie is aware of Skriker’s intention while Lyly doesn’t recognize it until it is too late.
Josie’s recognition for Skriker’s intention as well as for a patriarchal system that neglects to protect teenage girls who are apt to fall in love and to become pregnant demonstrates her defiance to follow the patriarchal social system. From her act of killing her own baby we can see not only her damaged maternal love but also her resentment for the existing social and economic system that does not protect single mothers. Her word “licence to kill” instead of “right to kill” suggests a system that regulates only her punishment instead of protection without asking for any responsibility of, or giving punishment to a male who is also apparently the cause of pregnancy. Churchill never mention the father of their children in the play. From this we can draw upon her politics to protest against welfare mother’s realities like Josie’s and Lily’s. If??we consider Josie's success to come back to the real world in a few minutes that results from her denial of a lost girl’s and Skriker’s warning, we can also draw upon Churchill’s suggestion of the functional relation between Josie’s rejection and the social system. In this context the toad that comes out through Josie’s mouth whenever she is speaking, symbolizes her resentment rather than reward for her bad mind.
Meanwhile ignoring Josie’s warning, Lily who has the fantastic belief that her self sacrifice will satisfy Skriker and save her child, follows Skriker into the underworld but the price of her belief turns out her ultimate failure that she faces her damaged, great grand daughter's howling rage. If children represent the future the Skriker, as the killer of children, threatens the future. Considering Josie's infanticide under the control of Skriker, some hope for the future depends on Lily’s near-birth baby who should be protected by the political, social and economic system of welfare. However, the indifference of the patriarchal system still continues and eventually connects to destroy our future where our murdered children participate. Despite of all Josie’s endeavours for protecting Lily throughout the play, the scene where Josie submits to “an old shabby respectable man” at the end of the play, suggests how much Josie is weak in love and with men. This scene also suggests lacking of ethics of the patriarchal society as well as the repetition of Josie’s imprisonment with the possibility of another infanticide. Through her strategies of stage, narratives and languages in The Skriker, Churchill delivers a coherent and simple message to improve our system for women and for our future. And if not this, she announces a strong warning of disastrous events in our future.
Churchill’s concern in The Skriker lies not in the characteristics or ideals of the two main teenage characters, Josie and Lily, but in the social, economic and gender-centric situations of the two girls. As Churchill stated in an interview, she wanted to “write a play of damage -damage to nature and damage to people,” the play is full of damaged images,- in appearance, language, and situation, especially in the mental and psychological conditions of the two girls. The damage Churchill stresses is the politically, socially, and gender-centric damaged system of Patriarchy where two teenage girls are isolated and abandoned without protection. She also stresses the idea of danger to the children through Josie’s act of infanticide that has occurred before the play opens, and that demonstrates the image of “damage” of Josie’s mental condition and maternal love.
Words change meaning with slight modification while phrases or puns multiply meanings by placing them in a different context, so that the substance of warning may be difficult to discern. However, Churchill demonstrates her warning through Josie and Lily’s closer friendship in the real world. The mental hospital scene where the pregnant Lily visits the mad Josie shows their closer friendship as well as their socially isolated and abandoned position that could be the mark of the destructive and damaged Skriker who brings children into the underworld. Josie’s good intention is to protect Lily from Skriker but always fails against Lily’s good intention to help the shape shifting Skriker. The difference between the two girls is that Josie is aware of Skriker’s intention while Lyly doesn’t recognize it until it is too late.
Josie’s recognition for Skriker’s intention as well as for a patriarchal system that neglects to protect teenage girls who are apt to fall in love and to become pregnant demonstrates her defiance to follow the patriarchal social system. From her act of killing her own baby we can see not only her damaged maternal love but also her resentment for the existing social and economic system that does not protect single mothers. Her word “licence to kill” instead of “right to kill” suggests a system that regulates only her punishment instead of protection without asking for any responsibility of, or giving punishment to a male who is also apparently the cause of pregnancy. Churchill never mention the father of their children in the play. From this we can draw upon her politics to protest against welfare mother’s realities like Josie’s and Lily’s. If??we consider Josie's success to come back to the real world in a few minutes that results from her denial of a lost girl’s and Skriker’s warning, we can also draw upon Churchill’s suggestion of the functional relation between Josie’s rejection and the social system. In this context the toad that comes out through Josie’s mouth whenever she is speaking, symbolizes her resentment rather than reward for her bad mind.
Meanwhile ignoring Josie’s warning, Lily who has the fantastic belief that her self sacrifice will satisfy Skriker and save her child, follows Skriker into the underworld but the price of her belief turns out her ultimate failure that she faces her damaged, great grand daughter's howling rage. If children represent the future the Skriker, as the killer of children, threatens the future. Considering Josie's infanticide under the control of Skriker, some hope for the future depends on Lily’s near-birth baby who should be protected by the political, social and economic system of welfare. However, the indifference of the patriarchal system still continues and eventually connects to destroy our future where our murdered children participate. Despite of all Josie’s endeavours for protecting Lily throughout the play, the scene where Josie submits to “an old shabby respectable man” at the end of the play, suggests how much Josie is weak in love and with men. This scene also suggests lacking of ethics of the patriarchal society as well as the repetition of Josie’s imprisonment with the possibility of another infanticide. Through her strategies of stage, narratives and languages in The Skriker, Churchill delivers a coherent and simple message to improve our system for women and for our future. And if not this, she announces a strong warning of disastrous events in our future.
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