Power and Identity: A Case Study on David Mamet’s Boston Marriage
الموضوعات : نکرش جدید در یادگیری زبان انکلیسیFatemeh Azizmohammadi 1 , Fatemeh Ghiasvand 2 , Mojgan Yarahmadi 3
1 - عضو هیت علمی و دانشیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اراک
2 - PHD.Candidate, Islamic Azad University of Arak Branch
3 - Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University of Arak Branch
الکلمات المفتاحية: subjectivity, Identity, Biopower, Relational freedom,
ملخص المقالة :
This researchis an endeavor to shed light on the issues about the mechanism of power and its sociological implications in David Mamet’s Boston Marriagebased on Michel Foucault’s views.Power circulates everywhere, or rather as something functioning in the form of a chain so that it is not repressive; rather it is productive and described as biopower. Furthermore, an individual’s identity is constructed through social relations over which he/she has less control. In this regard, the center of the discussion is on the concepts of power and identity, subjectivity and relational freedom. Therefore, Mamet’s characters live in a special social, and cultural system with which mould their identities. The research demonstrateshow Foucault’s views about sexuality as an instrument for biopower are shown in Mamet’s work to control and regulate individuals. The result shows that individuals attempt to put up much resistance against the authorities via the techniques and practices of self. However, their relational freedom is particularly determined by cultural constraints that are in the discursive regime of truth. Mamet’s characters are the products of the regime not a pre-given entity. Thus, the disciplinary control over their bodies and souls both subjugates individuals and constructs their subjectivities.
