IN THE CONTEXT OF POWER-BODY RELATIONSHIP THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY IN WOYZECK AND THE UGLY


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  • Banu Ayten AKIN Doç. Dr., Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, Sahne Sanatları Bölümü, banu.akin@deu.edu.tr, ORCİD: 0000-0002-0752-5198

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51293/socrates.143

Keywords:

biopower, capitalism, virtue, beauty, identity

Abstract

Georg Büchner is a German playwright who lived in the first half of the 19th century. Over time, Buchner went from passionate revolutionary to resentment and political isolation. In the play, he tries to read the relationship between the individual and crime in the light of the sociological, psychological and economic scientific data of the period. He analyzes how the power mechanism works in Woyzeck's play through the person of Woyzeck. He grounds the phenomenon of antihero in playwriting. His little man is dragged into murder with the identity he can't win and the revolution he can't make. His little man is dragged into murder with the identity he can't win and the revolution he can't make. Marius von Mayenburg is one of the most notable contemporary German playwrights. He tries to read the new myths created by the capitalist system in the postmodern era. The character Lette he created in his play Ugly is one of the new little men who oscillate between loss and gain of identity, thing and being a subject. Büchner makes a socio-political analysis of Woyzeck, who is exposed to the power's control over his body. Mayenburg describes the new masses with Lette and Lettes, who are kept away from creating their essence by being imprisoned in the image obsession and stuck to the norm of the form. In both cases, there are individuals whose subjectivity is tied to norms and whose identities are coded. In this study, the exploitation of the object-subjects at different times, which the biopower in the artifacts disciplines and controls, is analyzed. In this study, the exploitation of the object-subjects at different times, which the biopower in the artifacts disciplines and controls, is analyzed. In two game examples, one is the feudal order and the other is the exploited individual's attempt to have an identity within late capitalism. We look at the reduction of Woyzeck, who works for stomach fullness and is the subject of science, to the dog position. The meta-coding of Lette, who cannot represent her own production, is investigated with the method of analyzing the dramatic structure.

Published

2022-01-10

How to Cite

AKIN, B. A. (2022). IN THE CONTEXT OF POWER-BODY RELATIONSHIP THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY IN WOYZECK AND THE UGLY. Socrates Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Studies, 14, 47–57. https://doi.org/10.51293/socrates.143

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