The negative character in Saad El-Din Wahba's theatrical texts

Abstract

Abstract

          The current research includes four chapters. The first chapter included the methodological framework of the research, starting with the research problem, which was formulated with the following question: (What is the negative character in the theatrical texts of Saad El-Din Wahba). The importance of the research was evident as a new study that addressed the concept of the negative character and identified its concept and psychological and social references, especially by identifying the intellectual references of the theatrical writer Saad El-Din Wahba, which were not addressed in previous studies. The goal of the research was determined by identifying the negative character and its psychological and social dimensions in the theatrical texts of Saad El-Din Wahba, and the role of the negative character in the development of the structure of the conflict and the growth and development of events. As for the boundaries of the research, they were spatially in the Arab Republic of Egypt, while the time period was (1994-1996). As for the objective boundaries, they were the study of the negative character in the theatrical texts of Saad El-Din Wahba. The chapter concluded by defining the terms included in the title of the research, while the second chapter dealt with (the theoretical framework), which included three topics. The first topic dealt with studying the negative character, concepts and philosophy. Psychologically and socially, the second section was a study of the negative character in the theatrical text globally and Arabically, while the third section was the cognitive references of the writer (Saad El-Din Wahba Al-Masra'ah), while the third chapter was concerned with the research procedures and determining the research community consisting of (24) theatrical texts, and the text of the play (Bir Al-Salam 1995) was chosen as a sample for analysis.

While the fourth chapter contained the most important results, conclusions, recommendations and suggestions that the researchers reached, and the chapter concluded with a list of sources and references. Among the most important results that the researchers reached were: -

1. The general real social life circumstances contributed to the existence of an image of the negative character, which was embodied in the readable behavior adopted by the negative character in the theatrical text.
2. The presence of the negative character in the text resulted in a performance behavior that differed from all the known performance patterns of the characters, which provided the opportunity to find new creative spaces to develop the imagination of the recipient and multiply his readings.

As for the most important conclusions, they were:

1. The negative character played a major role in the field of identifying the poor political and social conditions in which the dramatic characters live and engage in a conflict between everything that is old in its various forms and a number of developments and changes that society is exposed to.
2. Negativity is a characteristic of characters with excessive ambition that justifies all types of behavior to achieve and reach it if the conflict and contradiction between this negative character and the other or within the character itself becomes necessary due to the character's motives to achieve its goals.

Keywords: Character, negativity, Saad El-Din Wahba's texts.