Shakespeare's Coriolanus as Epitome of a Dysfunctional Family
European Conference for Academic Disciplines, Freiburg, Almanya, 9 - 14 Kasım 2009, cilt.2, ss.41-45, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
- Cilt numarası: 2
- Basıldığı Şehir: Freiburg
- Basıldığı Ülke: Almanya
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.41-45
- Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Coriolanus has not been studied as extensively as Shakespeare’s other tragedies. Yet, with the change in sense of style with the turn of the twentieth-century Coriolanus is on stage more often and receives critical attention. Coriolanus seems rather a modern play in not evocating sympathy for any of the characters with whom the reader can identify himself with. Coriolanus has many distancing and disagreeable characteristics that may generate dislike for the protagonist, yet the skillfully adorned rhetoric and speech prove Coriolanus to be one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, as T.S. Eliot puts it Coriolanus is “Shakespeare’s most assures artistic success” (in Brockman 50). Shakespeare for some time was engaged “writing plays about the destructive effects of excessive emotional attachments between children and parents”, for instance, in Hamlet or King Lear (King 14). The outcome of the parental repression is likely to produce the worst repercussions on Coriolanus, who is torn between his own identity and the identity that his mother trying to exert on him.