APPROACHING SEAN O’CASEY’S JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK THROUGH SPEECH ACT THEORY

Abstract

The current research deals with the analysis of Sean O'Casey’s Juno and Paycock (1988) from feminist perspective, applying Speech act theory as an objective tool, and analyze the character of Juno, the protagonist of the play. Our aim is to show the position of women in male dominated society, and how she is exploring herself in the patriarchal society by reflecting the male and female characters from the drama named as Juno and the Paycock (1988) to show bleak images of women. The current research is qualitative and descriptive in nature where the researchers selected the dialogues from the selected play in which Sean O’Casey gives importance to women and where he shows male dominance at peak that is used against the women to be oppressed and marginalized. It is difficult to describe and analyze a character but applying certain tools as the researches have applied using Speech act Theory which became easier to analyze and understand. The counted acts e.g. it can be assertive, directive speeches which have been uttered by male and female character to show the frequency of that act and speech, and the acts show how many dialogue present women’s representation in the play. Through this technique, the nature of the writer comes before us which is giving voice to women’s character in the play.