Academic Scientific JournalsVictoires of Wajdi Mouawad : when defene- stration becomes a collective hope
Keywords:
Wajdi Mouawad, Greek tragedy, heroin, suicide, come back to lifeAbstract
Victoire, a student at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, committed suicide when she was only twenty-four years old. This death, inspired by Greek tragedies, reveals a gesture that is both heroic and symptomatic of an era. In his play, Wajdi Mouawad questions the depth of the deadly gesture of suicide as well as fate of death. By analyzing the funeral rites evoked in the play, we will see how Victoire's friends engage in a process of idealizing death, making Victoire a modern heroine. The gesture of death transforms into that of a gesture of hope, leading them towards a surge of life itself.
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