Revolt Against The Fixity Of Platonic Form

Susan Glaspell's The Verge renowned for its modernism has been analyzed by critics mostly from the perspective of feminism.This thesis aims to study its organic form as a revolt against the fixity in Platonic Form in terms of its form,language and gender.The trajectory of organic form starts from Plato as an instrument but undergoes in Glaspell's The Verge a radical change which highlights the tenets of romantic aesthetics with regard to poetic mind and divine humanity represented by Goethe's empirical method.The organic form plays a pivotal role in this play not only aesthetically but structurally.It simultaneously defines and is defined through the fluidity of its organic language and organic gender by establishing poetry and symbolic images as mediators between subject and object,conscious and unconscious;and by destroying the male/female dichotomies rooted in patriarchal diagnosis of hysteria,family discourse,dramatic space,and puritan morality.