ransformations within (Existentialist) Invariance in Ariel by Marina Carr with Reference to John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea

This article is a comparative analysis of Marina Carr’s Ariel (2002) and John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea. The main research context comes from common critical treatments of Carr’s oeuvre within the scope of Synge’s influences. The plays discussed in this essay have not been subject to comparative studies before (to the best of the author’s knowledge). The main argument consists in examining the loci of invariance and their transformations with reference to themes, characters’ roles, and their relationships, which will be compared in terms of notions of necessity, generational suffering, reliance on the worldly, and death in the unknown realm, partly treated within existentialism.