사라 케인의 『정화된』(Cleansed)』에 나타난 사랑과 폭력, 희생양 메커니즘

Love, Violence and Surrogate Victims in Sarah Kane's Cleansed

One of the principal themes in Cleansed is the interrelation between love and violence, because coercive powers enforce every attempt at expression of anti-social or anti-ethical love of taboo. So this study focuses on chasing the relationship between love and violence, to some extent, coercive forces, and it is based on Rene Girard's theory of violence and scapegoat According to Girard, violence is triggered by mimetic desire between the subject and the other. In order to break up the chaotic and threatening situation, a scapegoat is necessary, which has taken the responsibility to help eliminate social crisis. In the play, the homosexual love of Carl/Rod and the incestuous love of Graham/Grace, which may be able to transfer a mimetic desire to threaten the society, are monitored, and afterwards severely and violently punished by Tinker. It means that sacrificial violence serves as an agent of purification. However, there is no such thing as truly 'pure' violence, although it serves in the proper circumstance. Cleansed makes us carefully review some sort of contraction of violence through the conflict between love in madness and coercive powers accompanied with violence.