INVESTIGATING ASPECTS OF MARX'S THEORY OF ALIENATION IN THE PLAY“FEN” BY CARYL CHURCHILL

Abstract

The play " Fen" by Caryl Churchill was written in 1983. Fen is the story of the rural women of the Fen region who are forced to work on farms that are managed in the feudal manner of England to make a living. Churchill shows how the capitalist system has ruled over the working class and the lower class of society throughout the ages, as it has involved these people and especially in this play, women. And this problem is visible at every moment in their female body and psyche. Now, the category of alienation, according to Karl Marx, depends on factors that are briefly: economic aspects, commodity fetishism, capital gains, and political aspect, we will examine the moral aspects and religion in this play and see which of the aspects mentioned in HJEga" will be indicated by alienation.