@article{2018,title={THE REBELLIOUS WOMAN IN MACHINAL},abstractNode={Treadwell's play, Machinal, based upon a murder trial, shows the contemporary anxieties about the nature of love, truth, and justice. It deals with a heroine, Helen, who battles to escape the rules governing her roles as woman in a patriarchal society. This is a drama of isolation and betrayal in a mechanized age in which we see an individual standing alone in an industrial, urban society disintegrating into chaos. The play portrays an ordinary woman whose romantic idealism is scorned by her mother. The view that mothering is socially constructed will shed light to the analysis of women as both mothers and daughters. This paper will examine Machinal as feminist drama in terms of the mother-daughter relationship in patriarchal society. It will also focus on passivity, victimization and imprisonment of Helen. Machinal is about a woman who is trying to survive emotionally against the societal machine that make people conform to itself.},author={Özlem ÖZEN},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}