John Patrick Shanley

Doubt Doubt by John Patrick Shanley is about a nun who is entirely convinced that a priest had done something inappropriate with one of the students and taken advantage of the fact that the student (Donald Muller) is an African-American. Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the nun, concluded that Father Flynn, the priest, had been forcing Donald Muller to drink wine and molesting him. With the help of a naïve nun named Sister James, Sister Aloysius attempted to investigate her assumption of Father Flynn’s actions even if it meant contacting Donald’s mother. Sister Aloysius is a stereotypical splenetic Catholic School nun who believes that being an unsympathetic and oppressive person to the students is the…

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…

One of the reasons “Doubt” by John Patrick Shanly was a very entertaining play was because of its text elements. The play was about a morally wrong issue at a New York religious school that took place in the 1960’s. It sets this up by portraying the possibility that one of the priests named Father Flynn had an inappropriate relationship with a black child. This idea is conjured up by two of the school’s nuns discussing the idea. One nun, Sister Aloysisus is convinced while the other, Sister…

Did Father Flynn commit the crime or not? That is the question all the readers are asking themselves in the play, Doubt: A Parable. Sister Aloysius accuses Father Flynn on many different occasions, affecting his mental stability. Based on the evidence in John Patrick Shanley’s play, Doubt: A Parable, I conclude Father Flynn is guilty because of Donald and Father Flynn’s suspicious behavior. Also, Father Flynn is guilty because of how defensive he is and he eventually resigns. Donald Muller and…

Guiltiness of Father Flynn in Doubt Being accused of child molestation can have devastating effects on someone's life even if the accusation is false. In Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley, a priest is forced to deal with these accusations from his own co-workers. No hard evidence is given by the author and the reader is left to determine if Father Flynn is guilty or not. Based on the evidence John Patrick Shanley gives in his play, Doubt: A Parable, I conclude that Father Flynn is guilty…

through multiple versions that support the claim. Just like theories can only become factual unless they go through experiments that support the hypothesis. The certainty of anything is a figment of the imagination derived from the truth and is closer to “an emotion” than anything concrete (Shanley pp 49). The problem with truth is that it is subjective to the eye of the beholder and everyone sees truth in a different light. The truth is tainted. Therefore the idea of certainty is a lie.…

written by John Patrick Shanley. In this parable, a priest is accused of taking advantage of a young boy. Although there is no real resolution to whether he is innocent or guilty, one may imply based on their perception of the story. I believe that the priest is guilty because of his encounters with the boy, Donald Muller, and his resignation at the end. One reason Fr. Flynn is guilty is because of the multiple encounters with the young boy, Donald Muller. Donald is not like any of the other…

John Patrick Shanley wrote a play called Doubt. The setting is held in during a turbulent time in 1964, in Bronx, New York. Most of the events happened in the Catholic Church and school. The events begin to surface when young sister James started teaching at the school. Sister James was worried about a relationship that begin between Father Flynn and a student named Donald. She thinks Father Flynn and Donald may have become too close and informs Sister Aloysius about her observation. After she…

Even when others didn’t believe in her it was important she believed in herself. I believe Sister Aloysius was right in the book Doubt by John Patrick Shanley because She trusts her instincts and does not care what the outcome will be for her actions because of the incident that has occurred “eight years ago at St. Boniface where they had a priest who had to be stopped”(Shanley 22) and she does not want the history to be repeating itself again. When she finds out about Father Flynn and Donald…

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…