Fear of the Death and the Speed of Violence in the Play Named Queen Death of Henry De Montherlant

The point in question is the violence from beginning to end in the work the dead queen written in 1942 by henry de montherlant. from one scene to the other, the characters, the son of king don pedro and his secret love ines de castro live in fear of death under the king ferrante’s threat and they always exposed to the violence of the king. the characters dread from the king’s pressure and kingdom authority in the context of their long monologues, they always feel behind them the breath of death. king ferrante uses the violence as a means of fear and pressure to ensure the continuation of his lineage. he tries occasionally various violence ways. the characters are exposed to violence gradually. in other words, violence continues increasingly in each step. at the first scenes of the first pitch, the cues and the monologues starting with verbal and moderate threats continue increasingly at the last pitch to the last degree of violence and the violence is reached to the highest severity by killing ines in the last scene of the last pitch. it can be said that there is violence in montherlant’s theatrical production named the dead queen, this violence potentiates in each next stage, the characters live in fear of death to the last stage and ines is exposed to the violent death on the pretext of not being a noble at the end of the piece. threats, violence, fear and death are dominated thoroughly in piece.