She had lived her life disguised as a man to accomplish her life’s goal and finally became a Pope but she fell into the hands of lovers which eventually lead to her brutal death by the people. One of the other guests was Pope Joan who lived during the 19 th century. Even though she is a fictional character, the painting displays her ideology and her battle to withstand the problems and challenges and not to surrender.Her story helped Marlene to realise her struggles against various difficulties in life. Dell Gret, who was one of the guests at the party, is shown as the leader of the women to fight against devils in a painting. Marlene was able to correlate and define her life with that of Isabella. Isabella travelled, had numerous adventures and never allowed herself to be bounded in the role of a Housewife, even though she regrets for loses she had through it, she still nurtures the happiness of freedom and enjoyment she got by following her dreams.
She finally begins to take a positive approach to her life by being grateful for what she did get through her adventures and her own life strategy. Her life is shown as filled with unhappiness and begins to relate to the other lives. One of the dinner party guests was Isabella who lived during the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. Marlene finds her similarity with the depressed guests at the dinner party through her adoption to attain higher career objectives.
Even though she does not have many qualifications and is not approved by her mother, Joyce, she is determined to travel and find her real mother and breaks the invisible boundaries set by Joyce to achieve her ambition.Īngie: I am going to kill my mother and you are going to watch…….Now I am a cannibal. She learns that Marlene is her biological mother and a disturbed mind is portrayed by her repetitive dialogues of killing her adopted mother, Joyce. Angie on the other hand left school and doesn’t have qualifications. Marlene was only 17 years old when Angie was born and gave her away to fulfil her ambitions in her career. The story is told through the characters of five women of different time, culture and environment who join Marlene, who is the Chief Executive of Top Girl’s Employment Agency in London at a dinner party and also through other women who are associated with the Marlene during the various aspects of life and their struggle to fight beyond their boundaries to achieve their goals.Īngie is the daughter of Marlene and her humiliation which she tries to hide. The beginning of the play shows the imaginary or fantasy world of a woman and her experiences through the eyes of a first person and gradually glides to contemporary woman and her survival among the historical and imaginary worlds. Churchill had written the play in opposition to the ideologies of Margaret Thatcher which helps the rich minority of British women while the poorer sections were left ignored. This is illustrated on both Practical and Imaginary lines of the realities of the world. The Play shows the position of a woman in the life of a man through the social, political, economical and intellectual aspects and her struggle to move with the changing tides. The story has been described on the thematic structure of feminist ideas of women’s role in the modern world. Caryl Churchill is the Playwright of the famous Play ‘Top Girls’ which captures a charming and amusing approach of some of the famous women in history and the role of women in contemporary society.
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