Employing Theatrical Narrative Elements in the Play (Pygmalion) by Tawfiq Al-Hakim

Abstract

     Theatrical art in general emerges from internal or external conflicts, These conflicts reveal to us the impact that theatrical art has on the lives of the writer and the recipient a like. The artist shows us his works, anticipating whether people will accept or reject his art. That anticipation creates various conflicts It is possible to search the comparison between what  Tawfiq al-Hakim that creative artist, lived and what he endured in life as a result of his creativity. Al-Hakim projects what is within himself onto the characters of his play, embodying that suffering that oscillates between acceptance and rejection, encouragement and frustration. Anyone who contemplates the history of Tawfiq al-Hakim and his personal life will notice a wide dialectic and a clear oscillation in the stability of his creative self and its confrontation with a life that is full of internal obstacles and inhibitors - that is, on the scale of his family - or external - that is, on the scope of those around him in his society - these obstacles inflamed the heart of our writer, His problem was produced in the form of a theatrical text that was immortalized in the minds of the recipients. In this research, we will shed light on the conflict of art and life and Al-Hakim’s deepening of this conflict by employing the elements of theatrical narrative in it.