SOLIDARITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: WOMEN 'S STRUGGLE IN LYNN NOTTAGE 'S RUINED

The purpose of this paper is to examine the play "Ruined" by Lynn Nottage and its portrayal of women's unity in the face of violence. This analysis focuses on the play's female characters and how they react to and cope with the play's setting of conflict and brutality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It employs postfeminist theoretical frameworks to investigate the cultural and historical aspects that contribute to women's understandings of and responses to violence. The play shows the women's fight for survival and their strength in the face of patriarchal tyranny. There are five main parts to this study. In the first part, we are introduced to the drama "Ruined" and its primary themes of aggression, warfare, survival, and community. The play's critical reception and the analytic frameworks under consideration are discussed in the second half. The final part of the essay focuses on the female characters in the play, namely on their resistance and actions of solidarity against violence. Using postfeminist theory, the fourth segment examines the cultural and historical elements that determine the women's experiences of violence and their actions of solidarity. The results are summarized, and the paper's relevance is defended, in the last part.