Lust and Loss in Ravenhill’s Shopping and F****ing & Kane’s Blasted: Troubling Trends in a New Culture

As the modern world hangs on a string of utter moral collapse, several writers unleash restraints, thus bringing immorality to market square consumers who seem yearn for collapse walls in their world. Hearkening such cravings, Mark Ravenhill’s provocative title and play, Shopping Fucking (1996), Sarah Kane’s flaming Blasted (1995), present morally bankrupt characters clothed garments humanity. Glued wild recurrent sexual habits, suggesting, as it were, unceasing erosion human dignity, these cling, with menacing sternness, sex at all times lieu. Like burning candles that consume own heights, chronic drives activities works foregoing playwrights depict our diminish statue Set an economically dejected drug-redden East End London, F****ing serves canopy under which sits rancorous, impulsive, rampant drugs attendant loss they create. In similar vein, Blasted, set war-torn city, duplicate ruins societies, depicts depraved have whim impunity.