FEFU : My husband married me to have a constant reminder of how loathsome women are.
CINDY : What?
FEFU : Yup.
CINDY : That's awful.
[...]
I don't think anyone would marry for that reason. FEFU : He did.
Cindy : Did he say so?
EFU : He tells me constantly (Fornes, Fefu 1990, 8).
Fefu's marriage is an unhappy one. She marries Philip due to need and desire; she confesses to her friend Julia, ''I need his touch. I need his kiss. I need the person he is. I can't give him up'' (Fornes, Fefu 1990, 59). However, he abuses her and regards her and all women as trivial. To overcome the intolerable life with her husband, Fefu plays a game with him using a real and possibly loaded gun. She shoots him and he falls. As Araceli Gonzalez Crespan points out, this ''dangerous game of shooting the shotgun is a symbol of their tortured relationship'' …show more content…
Like Fefu, Julia is a victim of the unjust treatment of women in male-dominated societies. She seems to suffer from some sort of psychological disturbance. She is paralysed and confined to her chair as a result of a hunting accident in which she was harassed by men; in a hallucination, she maintains, ''They [the men] clubbed me. They broke my head, they broke my will. They broke my hands. They tore my eyes out. They took my voice away [...]. They killed me. The bullet didn't hit me. It hit the deer. But I died. They said ' Live but crippled' '' (Fornes, Fefu 1990, 33 - 34). Despite her paralysis, Julia is seen walking in the living room to check how much sugar is in the bowl. She is paralysed; yet, she can walk when she wills. In fact, Julia's paralysis, as Saul McLeod states, is due to her lack of free will caused by ''the casual influences of the past'' (2013). In addition, Julia suffers from hallucination. In Part Two, she undergoes a long hallucination during which she recites the principal tenets prevalent in patriarchal
CINDY : What?
FEFU : Yup.
CINDY : That's awful.
[...]
I don't think anyone would marry for that reason. FEFU : He did.
Cindy : Did he say so?
EFU : He tells me constantly (Fornes, Fefu 1990, 8).
Fefu's marriage is an unhappy one. She marries Philip due to need and desire; she confesses to her friend Julia, ''I need his touch. I need his kiss. I need the person he is. I can't give him up'' (Fornes, Fefu 1990, 59). However, he abuses her and regards her and all women as trivial. To overcome the intolerable life with her husband, Fefu plays a game with him using a real and possibly loaded gun. She shoots him and he falls. As Araceli Gonzalez Crespan points out, this ''dangerous game of shooting the shotgun is a symbol of their tortured relationship'' …show more content…
Like Fefu, Julia is a victim of the unjust treatment of women in male-dominated societies. She seems to suffer from some sort of psychological disturbance. She is paralysed and confined to her chair as a result of a hunting accident in which she was harassed by men; in a hallucination, she maintains, ''They [the men] clubbed me. They broke my head, they broke my will. They broke my hands. They tore my eyes out. They took my voice away [...]. They killed me. The bullet didn't hit me. It hit the deer. But I died. They said ' Live but crippled' '' (Fornes, Fefu 1990, 33 - 34). Despite her paralysis, Julia is seen walking in the living room to check how much sugar is in the bowl. She is paralysed; yet, she can walk when she wills. In fact, Julia's paralysis, as Saul McLeod states, is due to her lack of free will caused by ''the casual influences of the past'' (2013). In addition, Julia suffers from hallucination. In Part Two, she undergoes a long hallucination during which she recites the principal tenets prevalent in patriarchal