TRUE SELF’S TRIUMPH OR DEFEAT? : READING AMBIVALENCE IN MARINA CARR’S WOMAN AND SCARECROW
Irish playwright Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow (2006) stages the last hours of a dying woman, with a particular focus on her inner dialogue with Scarecrow, a figure that can be read as Woman’s true self in Winnicott’s terms. While this article highlights Woman’s imprisonment in a capitalist patriarchal world to exp...