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Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw is labelled as a subversive farce which challenges the generally accepted conventions and ideas of a society. It, however, never rejects the tradition of western comedy. Rather it actively uses the western comedy's common themes and structures. This paper pursues how Orton uses and subverts both the tradition of literature and the traditional ideas of his society in the play. For instance, The Butler deals with 'a search for identity' and 'a search for family and reunion,' which have been found in western comedy since Plautus. In the play, however, multiple losses of identities are observed but not the searches. Geraldine Barclay after struggling with forced, multiple identities, recovers her own identity and reunites with her lost parents and her twin brother. Here, the reunion with real identity and family is achieved by accident and with the help of Prentice's whimsical confession. The structure of 'search' remains, but without the contents. In this play, identity changes, especially sexual identity, but the traditional idea that identity is immovable is not challenged. All the characters, in spite of frequent and confusing costume changes, keep their own ideas of selfhood.
In this play, Geraldine is continuously abused by powerful men such as Prentice and Rance. She is certified many times and eventually strapped in a strait jacket. The abuses of the underdogs such as Geraldine and Nick are persistent and women's subjection to men is permanent. So whether this play challenges patriarchy is questionable. Rather, this play strengthens, in many ways, the patriarchal and authoritative social structures. In the end of the play, Sergeant Match recovers the cigar(a symbol of penis) of Churchill's statue, which he has been looking for. As family is reunited, Churchill's statue becomes a whole body. In this chaotic play, the only thing it matters to find seems to be neither one's identity nor family but Churchill's penis in both literal and symbolic ways. This play does not subvert but repeats what a patriarchal society has endorsed.
In this play, Geraldine is continuously abused by powerful men such as Prentice and Rance. She is certified many times and eventually strapped in a strait jacket. The abuses of the underdogs such as Geraldine and Nick are persistent and women's subjection to men is permanent. So whether this play challenges patriarchy is questionable. Rather, this play strengthens, in many ways, the patriarchal and authoritative social structures. In the end of the play, Sergeant Match recovers the cigar(a symbol of penis) of Churchill's statue, which he has been looking for. As family is reunited, Churchill's statue becomes a whole body. In this chaotic play, the only thing it matters to find seems to be neither one's identity nor family but Churchill's penis in both literal and symbolic ways. This play does not subvert but repeats what a patriarchal society has endorsed.
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