@article{2017,title={WOMAN AS A CREATIVE/DESTRUCTIVE POWER IN LORCA’S PLAY CALLED YERMA},abstractNode={Camille Paglia defines nature and woman which she identifies with nature both as a creative and destructive power in her book, Sexual Personalities. There lies the Apollon/Dionysos dichotomy at the basis of Paglia’s this notion. When Apollon is the symbol of culture and logic in this dichotomy, Dionysos represents the nature and feeling. In fact, in the universe dichotomies like Apollon/Dionysos, culture/nature, man/woman, logic/feeling must complete each other in harmony. However, in the Western world this harmony and balance have never been caught, conversely they have always been seen to be in struggle. Therefore, in this study adopting the text-based method, moving from that notion of Paglia, woman/man struggle will be focused on and the woman protagonist in Federico Garcia Lorca’s play called Yerma carrying the same name will be analysed both as a creative and destructive power. Yerma, turning into a destructive power like a hurricane, will bring catastrophe to her house when her desire to have a child does not cease. Thus, Paglia’s notion that a woman changes and turns into a destructive power when the harmony between woman and man is lost, will be justified by the examples from this play.},author={Arzu ÖZYÖN},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}