Citation

Dang C. Theory and Practice in Language Studies 2019; 9(6): 736-740.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019)

DOI

10.17507/tpls.0906.19

PMID

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Abstract

Having been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play and won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 'night, Mother is well-received for its realism, honesty and a universal demonstration of man's living dilemma. Jessie's emptiness and loneliness is strengthened not only by her epilepsy but also by her life out of control. Behind her firmness in committing suicide, there are her alienation from the outside forces, desperation and hysteria under her calmness, and the discipline of as well as resistance towards existence. She confesses that her intention of killing herself is for "protection" and she chooses committing suicide as the tragic consequence of madness in both her mind and body, at the same time, she makes the first and last free choice for her self-redemption. © 2019 ACADEMY PUBLICATION.

Language: en

Keywords

Mother; Madness; ’night; Committing suicide; Living dilemma; Self-redemption