THE MEMORIES OF WOMEN IN CARYL CHURCHILL’S TOP GIRLS

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161-170
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2018-Volume 13 Issue 20

This study represents the memories and lives of several women in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls. Contemporary English playwright Churchill is regularly considered as a dramatist who composes on chronicled topics and memories. Thus, Churchill's Top Girls is an original play of the cutting edge theatre, uncovering a universe of women’s memories and recollections with a vital crossroad in British history. The play opens with a supper party facilitated by Marlene, the recently advanced chief of the 'Top Girls' work office. Her visitors are five women who give documentary information about the past: a transvestite pope, a mistress, a resolute explorer, a respectful wife from Chaucer, and the pioneer of a surge into hellfire from a Bruegel painting. The women's activist topics presented by this clamorous scene reverberate all through the more contemporary activity of the play. Besides, as a second-wave feminist writer, Churchill uses the setting of the 'Top Girls' office to permit a look into the memories and lives of a few altogether different working women. The play also describes complex inquiries concerning a woman's rights which copies forceful, onerous conduct, and achievement that must be accomplished by surrendering family binds to drive a path to the top. In that event, the inequality between men and women, which is the theoretical framework of Top Girls, is articulated through the memories of women in Churchill’s play.

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This study represents the memories and lives of several women in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls. Contemporary English playwright Churchill is regularly considered as a dramatist who composes on chronicled topics and memories. Thus, Churchill's Top Girls is an original play of the cutting edge theatre, uncovering a universe of women’s memories and recollections with a vital crossroad in British history. The play opens with a supper party facilitated by Marlene, the recently advanced chief of the 'Top Girls' work office. Her visitors are five women who give documentary information about the past: a transvestite pope, a mistress, a resolute explorer, a respectful wife from Chaucer, and the pioneer of a surge into hellfire from a Bruegel painting. The women's activist topics presented by this clamorous scene reverberate all through the more contemporary activity of the play. Besides, as a second-wave feminist writer, Churchill uses the setting of the 'Top Girls' office to permit a look into the memories and lives of a few altogether different working women. The play also describes complex inquiries concerning a woman's rights which copies forceful, onerous conduct, and achievement that must be accomplished by surrendering family binds to drive a path to the top. In that event, the inequality between men and women, which is the theoretical framework of Top Girls, is articulated through the memories of women in Churchill’s play.

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