Lea Lorena Jerns

The main themes of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls Lea Lorena Jerns

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Anglistik & Amerikanistik), course: Caryl Churchill: From ?Top Girls" to ?Serious Money", language: English, abstract: The first part of the work answers different questions about English Literature in general. It regards in detail some fundamental aspects of Geoffry Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", the first collected editions of Shakespear's works, the central theme of Milton's "Paradise Lost", as well as it comments the thesis of "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". Furthermore the first part includes questions about the interpretation of Jane Austen's "Emma", the narrative structure of George Eliot's "Middlemarch" and other important works of English Literature. The second part contents the analysis of the play "Top Girls" and its main themes of travelling, motherhood and the loss of children. This play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1982 and was written during the time when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister. It is a study of career-driven women like her who succeeds in the men's world only by adopting their achievements.