Doubt
In John Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt, the protagonist, Father Flynn, is a priest in St. Nicholas church school and he is accused for have an inappropriate relationship with Donald Muller, a kid from the school. The conflict ends with Father Flynn having to leave the church. I argue that Father Flynn is a good example of an Archetypal tragic hero because he shows the traits of having a noble stature, having a tragic flaw, and the punishment exceeds the crime. Father Flynn is a priest in the St. Nicholas church school
Father Flynn shows that he is a noble stature because he is in an important position in the church society and his “fall” affects to the people around him. The true evidence of Father Flynn having a noble stature is seen when he says “I think a message of the Second Ecumenical Council was that the church needs to take on a more familiar face. Reflect the local community. We should sing a song from the ratio now and then. Take the kids out for ice cream” (Shanley 1444). In his position as a priest he is trying to make a progressive, better and happy place for the kids changing the traditional methods of the church. He was the only one on the church that cares about how to make the kids feel the church as a home. His “fall” end leaving the church will affect to the kids because he was the only who cared about their …show more content…
The true evidence of Father Flynn having a tragic flaw is seen when he gives the first sermon: “What do you do when you’re not sure? That’s the topic of my sermon today” (Shanley 1431). With this sermon Father Flynn is expressing his own doubts, fact that makes Sister Aloysius suspects that something wrong is happening, so she makes the other sisters report every strange behavior of Father Flynn. The position of priest makes to Father Flynn have an excessive pride and he does not think that this “confession” someone can use it against him and make him
In John Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt, the protagonist, Father Flynn, is a priest in St. Nicholas church school and he is accused for have an inappropriate relationship with Donald Muller, a kid from the school. The conflict ends with Father Flynn having to leave the church. I argue that Father Flynn is a good example of an Archetypal tragic hero because he shows the traits of having a noble stature, having a tragic flaw, and the punishment exceeds the crime. Father Flynn is a priest in the St. Nicholas church school
Father Flynn shows that he is a noble stature because he is in an important position in the church society and his “fall” affects to the people around him. The true evidence of Father Flynn having a noble stature is seen when he says “I think a message of the Second Ecumenical Council was that the church needs to take on a more familiar face. Reflect the local community. We should sing a song from the ratio now and then. Take the kids out for ice cream” (Shanley 1444). In his position as a priest he is trying to make a progressive, better and happy place for the kids changing the traditional methods of the church. He was the only one on the church that cares about how to make the kids feel the church as a home. His “fall” end leaving the church will affect to the kids because he was the only who cared about their …show more content…
The true evidence of Father Flynn having a tragic flaw is seen when he gives the first sermon: “What do you do when you’re not sure? That’s the topic of my sermon today” (Shanley 1431). With this sermon Father Flynn is expressing his own doubts, fact that makes Sister Aloysius suspects that something wrong is happening, so she makes the other sisters report every strange behavior of Father Flynn. The position of priest makes to Father Flynn have an excessive pride and he does not think that this “confession” someone can use it against him and make him