The Politics of Skriker: Its Reading based on the Fairy-tale Theory in The Juniper Tree (

* Park, Hyeong rak. "The Politics of Skriker: Its Reading based on the Fairy-tale Theory in The Juniper Tree." The Hyowon Journal of English Language and Literature 30 (2012): 55-70. Print 

Abstract

The Politics of Skriker: Its Reading based on

the Fairy-tale Theory in The Juniper Tree

Park Hyeong-rak

Hidden behind the fairy-tale exist special implicit rules. Readers of the fairy-tale, however, involuntarily absorb these laws. The strange part of the tale is that humans speak to animals or elves that they can easily travel in and out of dimensions and that several types of brutality sometimes exist in the story. The characters do not have a particular response to the inhuman situation because of the implicit rules. They can sometimes solve insuperable problems from these rules. Readers are attracted to whatever direction the writer wants to lead them. They will learn about taboo and recognize good and evil after reading fairly-tales. In the middle ages and through to the modern age, the target of its writer has been adults as well as children. Therefore, fairy-tales could be a social, national and political phenomenon. Caryl Churchill's Skriker is not a fairy-tale but she borrows the sets and structures from many fairy-tales and myths. She write many experimental plays, but Skriker is very different from the others, in that it is based on the aesthetic theory and the fairy-tale plots. The main elf in the play, named Skriker, occasionally refers to current political and environmental problems. Even if the audience does not fully grasp the theme in Skriker, some of the concepts in the play go to the root of the audience’s subconscious though well-known myths and stories of the past. Finally, they clearly see the politics of Skriker, but become seriously concerned with fairy-tale and esoteric parts of the play.

* *  Park, Hyeong rak. "The Politics of Skriker: Its Reading based on the Fairy-tale Theory in The Juniper Tree." The Hyowon Journal of English Language and Literature 30 (2012): 55-70. Print