Relationships between Women in Sarah Daniels Play Neaptide

This paper is an exploration of female re lationships using feminist and psychoanalytic approachesin reading a british play eaptide. the findings provide us a unique way of ex plaining thebondage between mother-daughter re lationships, and it also tells us that in the play neaptidesarah daniels offers a positive future to her two female pro tagonists because both have beenrescued by their motherj oyce. daniels uses the demeter-perseph one myth to illustrate the limitedchoices that her female characterjoyce has in han dling her family crisis. like dem eter,joyce keep sher fam ily together by deliverin g th em from male domin ation : val from her unhappy ma rr iagewith colin , and claire and poppy from the devious an d ruthless lawrence. claire's bold and hon estpublic confession of herself as a lesbian has clearly entailed suffering and sacrifice . however ,joyce has made the rig ht decision to help both her dau ghters to ge t out of the ir predicam ents.