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INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE AND MADNESS IN BONDS SUBVERSIVE COMEDY THE SEA

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).10      10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).10      Published : Jun 2021

Institutional Violence and Madness in Bond's Subversive Comedy The Sea

Abstract

    This paper analyses Edward Bond's play The Sea as a subversive comedy. The existing sociopolitical hegemonies in the British culture are ridiculed. Bond foregrounds the unjust automatized social structures that produce multiple types of madness that leads to violence. Gradually, the social beings become habitual of their madness-based identity. They develop an equation to cope with the existing coercive social system. The victim of these social hierarchies are brutalized, alienated and dehumanized, ultimately. Bond, through dialectical modes, self-reflexive text, creative images, comic strategies, symbolic configurations and various behavioral absurdities awakes his reader/audience to diagnose the dreadful situation in which they are and to practically do something to replace the irrational life by the sanity-oriented social existence. Elisabeth Wright's theory of found in her book Postmodern Brecht: A Re-Presentation (1989) informed this study as a theoretical paradigm.

    'Aggro-effects', Alienation, Dehumanization, Rational Theatre

    (1) Muhammad Umer Azim
    Assistant Professor of English, Government Graduate College Township, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Muhammad Saleem
    Professor of English, Government Graduate College Township, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Nargis Saleem
    Lecturer, Department of English, Riphah International University, Lahore Campus, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Azim, Muhammad Umer, Muhammad Saleem, and Nargis Saleem. 2021. "Institutional Violence and Madness in Bond's Subversive Comedy The Sea." Global Language Review, VI (II): 85-93 doi: 10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).10

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    HARVARD : AZIM, M. U., SALEEM, M. & SALEEM, N. 2021. Institutional Violence and Madness in Bond's Subversive Comedy The Sea. Global Language Review, VI, 85-93.

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    MHRA : Azim, Muhammad Umer, Muhammad Saleem, and Nargis Saleem. 2021. "Institutional Violence and Madness in Bond's Subversive Comedy The Sea." Global Language Review, VI: 85-93

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    OXFORD : Azim, Muhammad Umer, Saleem, Muhammad, and Saleem, Nargis (2021), "Institutional Violence and Madness in Bond's Subversive Comedy The Sea", Global Language Review, VI (II), 85-93

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    TURABIAN : Azim, Muhammad Umer, Muhammad Saleem, and Nargis Saleem. "Institutional Violence and Madness in Bond's Subversive Comedy The Sea." Global Language Review VI, no. II (2021): 85-93. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).10