Social Constructivism and The Other in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and Indian Ink
Social Constructivism and The Other in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and Indian Ink

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a case study attempting to explore modes of presentation of the Other in the two later dramatic texts by Tom Stoppard. Stoppard’s fertile career was launched with a performance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, drama which seemingly coincidently reflects the shift in literary criticism that at that time only begins to question the established theories on language, Subject, Identity, absolutes and traditional value systems. Criticism (and literature) thereof has set its focal point on the “little narratives” characterised by fragmentation, meta-fictional texts that deal with the act of writing (or inability to write), all reflected and embodied in Stoppard’s early literary scope. Somewhat later criticism fixes its focus on the texts promoting and allowing marginalized groups defined by their racial, ethnic and/or gender attributes to voice their struggles and peculiarities, very much like Stoppard’s plays Arcadia and Indian Ink.

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