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Abstract
The thesis investigates how the three protagonists in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie (1944), Lenin El-Ramly’s Viewpoint (1989), and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus (1990) attempt to uncage themselves from disability. Drawing on Karl Marx’s theory of Marxism, which interprets history as a series of class struggles, I argue that the (dis)abled bodies of the protagonists are commodified and exploited at the time of the Great Depression in America, the Open-Door Policy in Egypt in the 1970s, and the British Cape Colony in South Africa in the nineteenth century. In the 1930s, American society was divided into many strata by the Great Depression, which drove every family to take action. The Open-Door Policy made it easier for the bourgeoisie to exploit the proletariat. During the British colonization, the colonizers treated the aboriginals as objects and commodities. This is what happened to the “abled” people, but what happened to the “disabled” was the worst. The thesis also attempts to find answers to the questions: How does money influence the disabled protagonists? What do the disabled protagonists do to resist the materialistic conditions and to uncage themselves from disability? Furthermore, the thesis examines techniques such as symbolism, soliloquy, light, and dramatic irony in the plays.