Birds, there was controversy about the roles of women within society. Caryl Churchill was acting against the stereotype of the non-violent female and the dominant male in society. She may have been opposing and challenging the stereotypes (whereas Euripides may not have had this intent) of gender within society by the fact that her female characters are mainly violent and shocking, such as Lena who kills the baby and Yvonne who has a stereotypically odd occupation, and portraying the men with weaker qualities such as Paul who loses sensibility and falls in love with a pig and Derek who is unemployed (a stereotype of that t
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