Competition for Male Versa Female in August Strindberg's the Stronger and Ali Abdulnibi Al_Zadi Summer Rain
Fawziya Mousa Ghanim University of Baghdad
Abstract
This paper aims to analysis and discuss two different plays for two different playwrights who belong to different ages, countries, cultures and nationalities. The Swedish August Strindberg's The Stronger and the Iraqi playwright Ali AbdulnibiAl_Zadi's Summer Rain. The study will depend on Frommian Humanistic Psychoanalysis. The two main characters suffer from the same dilemma( Mrs.X in The Stronger and Flana in Summer Rain ). The paper will explain the situations and actions of both women according to the theory of Erich Fromm. It will examine the two characters competing to fulfill their human needs. The characters in The Stronger and Summer Rain are nameless . They struggle to maintain love , self –awareness and identity. The research will discuss the basic anxiety where the protagonists have experienced throughout the two plays. Otherwise , the study implies the sense of conflict , collision , gender role and women's self-realization .
Keywords: Fromm Humanistic Psychology, basic anxiety, The Stronger, Summer Rain.