Metaphor and Poetry Through Dreams in "Marble," Sublime and Oneiric Drama: Marina Carr, a Succesor to Calderón de la Barca?

Abstract

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the Irish writer Marina Carr has emerged internationally with her unique drama production. Her symbolic and oneiric dramas have led her to be widely regarded as one of the successors to the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Marble is an extraordinary play by Marina Carr about the human experience involving dreams. Does this play follow La vida es sueño? Along with Calderón de la Barca in La vida es sueño, through visual imagery Carr would explore life like a dream to seek human freedom and dignity. Metaphorical constructions and poetic language repair those existential and ethical models chosen in our life path. Marina Carr covers our dreams with marble when made already compact, unbreakable, and perfectly polished because they are showing an ideal life. Her dreams are presented as a reflection on a second opportunity of getting successful and free. They will thus bring back nostalgic times and attain the sublime against doom and a tragic reality.