Top Girls

Characterization of Feminism in Top Girls Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls contains many social observations about the modern woman. This is done mainly by great characterization. In the play Top Girls we come to know many women, both modern and historical, who appear to be extremely successful. At the time this play was written, in 1982, feminism, and the successes of the modern “business women” was an earthshaking movement that had an extreme effected on …

…chosen career over family, and in return broken many social taboos, such as giving away 5. her daughter. Ultimately what Marlene and the other “top girls” have done is traded their feminine characteristics for masculine ones, in order to succeed in a male-dominated economic society. The message that Churchill is sending is that women’s roles have changed and evolved over time, however, much progress remains to be made in the bettering of women’s roles.