SOCIO-POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER IN BRECHT’S PLAY THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN

Abstract

Feminism is an umbrella term which comprises so many sub-terms in itself. It deals with the issue of identity, sex, gender discrimination and equal rights of the women. This study is qualitative in nature that explores switching of gender role from the perspective of Butler’s performative attribution from Brecht’s play The Good Person of Szechwan. In this play, Shen Teh’s successful accomplishment of Shui Ta proves gender as a performative phenomenon. Different research scholars have accomplished their scholarly works on the various social, economic, psychological and political aspects of the concerned drama in the light of Marxist paradigms but a lot is still required to analyze this work from the point of different gender roles.  It also aims to analyze how gender is determined upon the basis of performance and gender role regardless of the sexual identity of the characters reflected in Brecht’s concerned play. The research scholars of feminism and Bertolt Brecht will get benefit from this study.