Doubt: A Parable is a one act play written by John Patrick Shanley which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for drama. An award I personally think it deserves.
The play takes place at a Catholic primary school in the Bronx, New York, in 1964. The second half of the twentieth century was a particular turbulent time for the Catholic church. People were changing, views were growing more liberal with each generation and the church was playing catch up with a society that was very quickly undergoing a social and technological revolution. Even from the mid-nineteen seventies (when my mother was in school) to the early 2000s that I spent in Catholic school things had changed immensely. Most of my teachers were not nuns, secular carols were sung at Christmas …show more content…
All things addressed in the play as subjects of much debate in their diocese.
The first scene in the play is a monologue, a homily given by the head priest of the parish Father Brendan Flynn. It is about doubt, in God and in oneself. He say “Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.” he almost certainly speaking of doubt in God and the Trinity but the statement runs in a powerful parallel with both the good and bad that come from doubt in the play. The curtain then opens on the office of the school’s principal, Sister Aloysius Beauvier. She has called another nun in for a meeting, Sister James. The
The play takes place at a Catholic primary school in the Bronx, New York, in 1964. The second half of the twentieth century was a particular turbulent time for the Catholic church. People were changing, views were growing more liberal with each generation and the church was playing catch up with a society that was very quickly undergoing a social and technological revolution. Even from the mid-nineteen seventies (when my mother was in school) to the early 2000s that I spent in Catholic school things had changed immensely. Most of my teachers were not nuns, secular carols were sung at Christmas …show more content…
All things addressed in the play as subjects of much debate in their diocese.
The first scene in the play is a monologue, a homily given by the head priest of the parish Father Brendan Flynn. It is about doubt, in God and in oneself. He say “Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.” he almost certainly speaking of doubt in God and the Trinity but the statement runs in a powerful parallel with both the good and bad that come from doubt in the play. The curtain then opens on the office of the school’s principal, Sister Aloysius Beauvier. She has called another nun in for a meeting, Sister James. The