INTRODUCTION : Asif Currimbhoy believes in the fact that literature is meant to represent the society. As a social critic, he exhibits his excellence in portraying the social condition as prevailing in the contemporary time. Jr. Martin C. Caroll has also commented that the chief function of literature is “to reflect with meaning the totality of the contemporary human condition.” We see that an artist brings out social truths and that literature is a reflection of social process. He has been called “India’s first authentic voice in the theatre” by Faubion Bowers. He is a playwright of social purpose and essentially wrote plays to be performed in theatre. Known for the variety and versatility of his plays, Currimbhoy deals such topical themes and issues like race, class, gender, politics, capitalism, poverty, colonization and human relationships. Asif Currimbhoy is a well known name in Indian English drama of modern times. He began his career as a dramatist in 1959 and has written more than 30 plays. He applied variety & versatility in his plays. Thus the literature influenced by its milieu reflects the contemporary social structure. Asif Currimbhoy is a close follower of the above mentioned view. Each play has a touch of reality due to its connection with some major event or incident of the past or the contemporary time. He targets the impact of the social issues over the lives of people. Walter Meserve remarks: Currimbhoy‟s plays are concerned wih the problems of man
The Crucible and 12 Angry Men are two plays with the same theme of justice that is expressed differently throughout each play. From their differing time periods and setting, both plays explore the justice system within society and the role people play within the system. Both 12 Angry Men and The Crucible have similarities, both plays have main characters that are attempting to right wrongs that they see being committed in their respected plays. Once the authors introduced the characters to us they then showed us how they implement the justice system in their plays and the effect it had on the plays societies. The outcome of these stories are different and they express varying effects the justice system can have on society.
The Crucible still remains in society today because of the hysteria of Salem witch trials. The main character in this play is Abigail Williams, Abigail is very manipulative and wants everything to go her way. She is the main character and causes trouble everywhere she goes. The Salem Witch Trials is about hearings and prosecutions of people who were accused of witchcraft. In The Crucible Abigail is a no good villain.
When works of literature deal with social and political issues, they use different means to portray a message. The dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell, explores political issues while presenting the reader with a warning of dangers as a result of totalitarianism government. In contrast, the utopian novel, Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn presents the reader with political issues such as abuse of power within a totalitarianism through a juvenalian satirical tone. While both Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn and 1984 by George Orwell focus on political issues by utilizing powerful literary elements to depict the author’s message, 1984 develops a more effective portrayal of the message through the use of powerful diction, development of significant characters,
The play is about human weakness, hypocrisy, and vindictiveness. In each paragraph these traits will be further explained.
The first trait is human weakness. This appears man times throughout The Crucible.
Human is a species that live in group, and conformity is one of the distinct characteristic of human nature. In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller investigates various natures in community throughout Act 1 and 2. The play took place at Salem, a town that primarily based on puritanism, the major plot of this play is about witchcraft and witch hunt. Miller conveys a essential message of people always search for conformity from society as a form to prove their identity, further, any rebellion would consider as outcast from majority. The author explores the theme by the use of conflict, this literary element best demonstrates changes of characterizations and complication between others and internal struggle.
Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible,” and Bob Dylan’s song, “The Times They are A-Changin’,” effectively present their course of action through dramatised staging features and musical and poetic devices respectively. The composers of these texts and the characters portrayed in them seek to manipulate and coerce others in an attempt to acquire their own true
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play which contains a multitude of complex characters . In the play, the characters’ motivations and inner processes are explored. Because of the historical setting, the characters live in a society of judgement and extreme religious devotion. This is a factor that places any of the characters’ choices and morals in a public balance to be judged by others. Abigail Williams is the main character of the play and acts with an utter selfishness and obsession.
Sadly, there are still other “crucibles” going on in our world today that have caused beliefs to become severe events. With all the events in the play, Arthur Miller was able to show the real meaning of a
In this essay, "Why Literature Matters", author Dana Gioia sets up an argument about literature. Which she uses various ways to persuade her audience be in favor of her proposal; by showing statistic evidence, facts, and historical evidence, as well as some ironies, diction, and the appeals to reader's emotion.
First of all, Gioia begins with strong appeals to reader's logos by clearly laying out the statistic source. For example, "According to the 2002 survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the reading population of the Americans is declining. " In turn, is an attempt to point out the thesis statement and make the readers to think out about this topic wile reading through her essay.
She believes the syllabus provided to students do not include any challenging books, and her belief toward high school teachers becoming too lazy to examine thoroughly if the book the education system provides them with represent any true and significant value is a recurring concern of hers’- therefore ineffective to students. All in all, Prose used ethos, pathos, logos and the usage of specific words to help her argument. She successfully persuades her point of view and makes it clear that if schools want their curriculum to improve, they must change their way of teaching and push their students to view literature in a new
Such revivalists hardly knew the peasants they tried to present in their work so that they could construct them as per the idealization, inside the noble realm of poverty and suffering. Dublin audience did not know exactly – and did not want to know the real Irish. So that they created in their minds an idealized version of Irish peasant which was promoted by the plays of the Irish National Theatre Society, such as W. B. Yeats’s Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902), or Douglas Hyde’s Irish-language plays. As a result of this blind idealization, Synge’s works were attacked for the actual presentation of Irish folks as they are. Breaking the very expectation of the Dublin audience about the portrayal of characters, his characters did not fit to the idealized ones.
Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp. His father was a teacher and his mother a domestic worker. Tutu grew up in the apartheid era but seems to have made the best out of it. He was completely dedicated to the anti-apartheid cause. From being an Anglican priest, Tutu became general secretary of the South African council of Churches and then rose to become the first black Archbishop of Cape Town.
Perhaps the strongest character in the play is the politician, played by Chigozie Ijeoma, whose character is mindless and corrupted by overbearing pressure by society and he finds himself trapped within a system built on bribery and temptation. Strachan captures the inner workings of our small communities as they implode in decay, incest, single-parenthood and explode in rape, violence and exploitation. Moreover, all because we have come to the point where there is no longer the ability to empathize with our
Firstly, Orwell explores the theme of poverty through the use of imagery and repetition in order to give his writing a very intricate and memorable description. In this first section Orwell
