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This study examines how Churchill’s Cloud Nine dismantles the traditional heroic narrative and reimagines it through the framework of the collective narrative. Drawing on narrative theory, feminist criticism, and Denborough’s collective narrative practice, the analysis situates Churchill’s play within a broader critique of patriarchal storytelling. Act I reconstructs the hero’s journey through Clive and the codes of imperial adventure, while Act II disperses agency across multiple characters in a polyphonic structure. Key scenes demonstrate this transformation: the ritual offering to the goddess replaces individual pursuit with shared ceremony; Betty’s act of bodily self-acceptance grounds communal recognition in personal autonomy; and the purchase of a communal household institutionalizes collective life beyond patriarchal order. Together, these moments exemplify how Cloud Nine enacts the emergence of collective narrative. The study argues that Churchill’s dramaturgy not only disrupts the linearity and closure of heroic form but also experiments with “unnatural narratives” that privilege multiplicity and co-authorship. By emphasizing relationality over mastery, Cloud Nine offers a feminist alternative and redefines narrative as a practice of plurality, vulnerability, and shared transformation.

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I. Introduction
II. Theoretical Framework: From the Heroic Discourse to the Collective Narrative
III. Cloud Nine Act I: Reenacting and Undermining the Heroic Narrative
IV. Cloud Nine Act II: Constructing a Collective Narrative
V. Conclusion: Rethinking Narrative through the Collective
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• Sung, Eunjoo [ Jeonbuk National University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810