تبادل الأدوار الأسریة وتأثیراتها الإجتماعیة والكومیدیة فی مسرحیة "الحمیر" Asinaria لبلاوتوس

Abstract

The Effect of Exchanging of Family Roles and it's Social Comic Effects in Plautus' "Asinaria"Plautus' Asinaria is full of variations more than any other play, as well as sudden transformations of plot, mixing in the same character traits, and irrationally motivated actions in events. Thus, this play can be said that it is a farce that turns into an incoherent comedy, whether because of neglect or reformulation by Plautus, and this is not befitting Plautus' status and the theatrical traditions in which he worked.Plautus has excelled through his play in drawing characters who play the roles of each other, showing the wife and mother controlling her husband and her son, in a way that is not appropriate for women. It is different from the obedient and submissive woman, and this was laughable, for depicting the comic role of a woman, playing the role of a man is a parody characterised by exaggeration and distortion of usual behaviours and normal roles. This causes sarcasm and ridicule of the role played by women, contrary to the stereotype that they should be. As for the husband and father, in exchange for the enjoyment of his wife's financial resources, he admits that he has relinquished his powers as a man in his family to her. As a result, he has relinquished his position, losing his dignity, becoming as nothing in the family, and has had no control on his wife's life or even the evaluation