• R. Mohana
• Dr.K. Thiyagarajan

Simon Stephens focuses on a number of themes in his plays which frequently deal with the theme of broken or dysfunctional families. Though he talks about violence, brutality and teenage nihilism he always wants to reiterates the point that individuals necessarily arrive at their beliefs through the heritage of their community, but this does not imply their beliefs are given by their community: the fact that they start out from within a given social context does not establish they cannot then adjust this context. “If the family set-up sometimes interrogated fearlessly, its absence is mourned,” says Stephens in the introduction to Plays: 3(xviii). The aim of the present paper is to analyse how Simon stresses his view that the concept of an individual is a concept of an individual embedded in the society. The paper concentrates the relationship of individual within society with reference to the plays such as Herons and Wastwater of Simon.

Individual, Society, Simon Stephens, Herons, Wastwater.

"SIMON STEPHENS’ VIEW ON THE CONCEPT OF AN INDIVIDUAL IS A CONCEPT OF AN INDIVIDUAL EMBEDDED WITHIN SOCIETY THAT REVEALED THROUGH HIS SELECTED PLAYS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.483-489, March-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103066.pdf

"SIMON STEPHENS’ VIEW ON THE CONCEPT OF AN INDIVIDUAL IS A CONCEPT OF AN INDIVIDUAL EMBEDDED WITHIN SOCIETY THAT REVEALED THROUGH HIS SELECTED PLAYS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no. pp483-489, March-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103066.pdf