@article{ART001657168},
author={강선자},
title={Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2012},
volume={25},
number={1},
pages={5-27},
doi={}
TY - JOUR
AU - 강선자
TI - Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2012
VL - 25
IS - 1
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 5
EP - 27
SN - 1226-3397
AB - Albee’s central concern is ‘how to live in this world.’ Originally titled Life, the play reconfirms Albee’s ongoing battle to stage the various kinds of ethical problems with which his heroes struggle. In Seascape Albee explores three interwoven forces: animal nature, as imaged by the sea lizards Sarah and Leslie; human nature, as reflected by Nancy and Charlie; and the kind of existentialist imperative forged by the intermixing of the animal world with the human world.
Seascape represents a marked and refreshing stylistic change. The extremely violent scenes, the psychological games, the Strindbergian battling couples are gone. The couples in Seascape, Charlie and Nancy and Leslie and Sarah, accept each other and learn from each other. Even though they suffer, live in an absurd cosmos, realize the possibility for growth and change. They know they sometimes “have to tail drop off, change their spots or maybe just their point of view” to survive. They are not afraid of flux and mutation. And through the self-awareness of death and loss, each character actually loves his or her partner. The force of love, that element which so many Albee figures fail to understand in the earlier plays, here takes hold, indeed becomes an informing principle.
KW - flux;mutation;evolvement;archetypes;Seascape;Edward Albee.
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강선자. (2012). Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?. Journal of Modern English Drama, 25(1), 5-27.
강선자. 2012, "Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.25, no.1 pp.5-27. Available from: doi:
강선자 "Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?" Journal of Modern English Drama 25.1 pp.5-27 (2012) : 5.
강선자. Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?. 2012; 25(1), 5-27. Available from: doi:
강선자. "Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?" Journal of Modern English Drama 25, no.1 (2012) : 5-27.doi:
강선자. Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?. Journal of Modern English Drama, 25(1), 5-27. doi:
강선자. Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2012; 25(1) 5-27. doi:
강선자. Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?. 2012; 25(1), 5-27. Available from: doi:
강선자. "Seascape: Who's Afraid of Flux and Mutation?" Journal of Modern English Drama 25, no.1 (2012) : 5-27.doi:
