The Maids (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Genet
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Surrealism
- Time of Work: The 1900’s
- Setting: An elegant feminine bedroom
- Genres: Drama, Surrealist literature, Absurdist literature
- Subjects: Perception, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Self, Imagination, Servants, Identity, Hallucinations or illusions, Existentialism
Characters Discussed
Solange (soh-LAHNZH), a maid between thirty and thirty-five years of age. She is a bitter, violent, frustrated young woman who tends to dominate her sister Claire, who is also a maid. In many respects, the two sisters are similar, even interchangeable. They both deeply resent the humiliating and subservient position they have been allotted by society. They are nothing; they have no real being, except what Madame, their mistress, makes them. Envious of each other, as well as of Madame, they passionately hate and love each other just as they passionately hate...
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Jean Genet (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Jean Genet (Drama)Jean Genet (Dictionary of World Biography)Jean Genet (Long Fiction)Jean Genet (Censorship)
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