Male Chauvinism in Sarah Kane's Blasted

Abstract

The play, Blasted (1995), written by Sarah Kane, a British dramatist, represents the wretched condition of women caused by male chauvinism and war. Cate, the potagonist of the play represents the condition of women in society in general. War is a form of patriarchy which exploits women. Like Cate, many women are forced to have sex with soldiers during war. The play is a devastating attack on war, implying that war is the death of all human values; it is the end of civilization; it is less than primitivism. It is this reality that has been depicted in this play. Rape goes along with war and Sarah Kane implies that rape like war is devoid of all humanity and it is equally brutal, and, monstrous. Both are the maturest, the most heinous expressions of patriarchy.

The method employed to conduct this research is feminism, which is very close to Marxism in its study of social evils like inequality and exploitation. Sexual exploitation of woman is very much