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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis discusses the causes and effects of the main female character?s
adoption of new values in Robert Yeo?s two plays, Are You There, Singapore?
and One Year Back Home. The main female character, Ang Siew Hua, is a
Singaporean but she has been westernized. Through this analysis, I want to know
what aspects of western culture that Hua adopts, why she adopts it and what are
the effects of that. To analyze the problems above, I use cultural approach and
apply postcolonial theory. This study shows the aspects of western culture that
Hua has adopted and it also reveals the causes and effects of her adoption of
western culture while she is living in London. For Hua has been total in the
adaptation process, she looks like a "western girl" and she expresses her
individual freedom in many things such as, appearance, behaviour and life style.
Nevertheless, after being a "western girl" Hua faces conflict of values and she
finds out that she is disappointed with European. Therefore, she decides to return
to Singapore and starts her new life there. However, Hua feels "displaced" in
Singapore because her character is no longer appropriate to Singaporean. From
the analysis, I can conclude that European values that the main female character
has adopted make her realize the fact that European values are not better than
Singaporean values.