‘Crossing Over’ the (Blurred) Lines among Reality, Virtuality, and Theatricality: A Cyberpsychoanalytical Study of the Nether by Jennifer Haley
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
The advancement of technology, especially the online world on the internet, has brought a new dimension to the life and psychology of the people. Jennifer Haley’s play The Nether takes this fact into consideration and employs the impact of the internet, i.e. the virtual world, in the real or the physical world as its subject matter. This paper investigates and maps the boundaries of the worlds – real, virtual, and theatrical – presented in the play and examines their relationships with one another, and then claims that the lines between these three realities actually overlap with one another. With the exploration of the characters’ psyche, this paper argues that the characters transcend the normal boundaries of the real, the imaginary or virtual, and the theatrical, creating a new reality in the age of advanced technology. To ground its arguments, the paper adopts an interdisciplinary framework to discuss the play – it explains the play in the light of the cyberpsychoanalytical theory, an interdisciplinary study of the psychoanalytic literary theory and cyberpsychology.
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Bishnu Pada Roy
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