Sarah Ruhl`s Eurydice: A Magical Realistic Study of Death, Grief, Loss, Myth, and Memory

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This research paper concentrates on examining themes of grief, loss, death, myth, and memory in Sarah Ruhl`s Eurydice (2003) as a magical realistic play. Magical realism is one of the most important literary narrative styles that integrates reality with fantastic events that can coexist without question. It represents how fantastic elements appear as a natural part of the real world. Magical realist texts include supernatural and mythical events to reveal the mystery of things and fix the defects of reality. Influenced by Greek mythology, Ruhl seeks to explain some of life`s mysteries through adopting this literary genre. She creatively reforms the classical myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to highlight the sustaining power of paternal love. Confused between her father in the underworld and her husband on earth, Eurydice, the protagonist, must decide. Using a mixture of different and opposite dualities, Ruhl tends to decrease the intensity of emotions of loss and death manifested in the character of Eurydice. Memory is thus contradicted with the tragic past of Americans. The strength of this tension between remembering and forgetting largely recalls the marginalized voices in society. The playwright urges the Americans and rather all the western society to move on and to surpass all emotions of loss, death, and grief.

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