Binary Oppositions, Otherness, and Borders in David Greig's Europe
Binary Oppositions, Otherness, and Borders in David Greig's Europe

Summary/Abstract: David Greig is a playwright from Scotland who has opened up to the world and has dealt with social, political and economic problems related to globalization, an issue of central focus and interest in his plays. The characters of Europe can be categorized under binary oppositions, and the main setting of the play, the train station, is representative of Europe as a continent. The existing system at this station parallels the social and economic structures seen in today's Europe. The train station, on the other hand, is the "in-between" space that connects the two poles, referring to a metaphor that corresponds to the in-betweenness in a society. The purpose of this study, putting this inbetween space in the centre, is to interpret the concepts "the other" and "border" and to examine, define and describe the binary oppositions such as Europeans vs immigrants, self vs the other, solidarity vs mobility, a running system vs a collapsing system, cleanliness vs dirt and structure vs restructure within the framework of this analysis and interpretation.

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