The Toxic Donut Play Analysis

Toxic Donut is a play written by Terry Bisson in June of 1993 which takes place in the far future. The play is resembled like an award show. Unlike all other awards shows in the world , the special guest on this show must sacrifice their life by consuming all of humanity's toxic waste from the prior year, formed into an “edible” donut. Kim is the unfortunate soul who is the guest of honor in the live televised show only shown once a year. Chief administrative assistance is Ron who is rehearsing with Kim for the big night. Teaching and talking to her to keep her relaxed and have her clueless on what is about to happen to her. Kim Is very significant is this story due to that she is the one who is volentold. She has no idea that

While the story takes place in the future at the time, after humanity has found a solution for environmental destruction besides changing habits, Ron, the administrative assistant, talks about humanity's past and all the things we as humans have done to harm the ecosystem. In Ron's time, environmentalism is a worldwide concern much as it is today, so much so that there is an "International Institute of Environmental Sciences." As Ron notes, Kim represents everyone who cares about the environment. However, instead of trying to minimize pollution, as today's environmentalists advocate, the futuristic human society in the story are free to produce as much toxic waste and dangerous gasses as it pleases without any reproductions or concern, since at the end of the year, it can be formulated into one donut with a single human sacrifice forced to eat the donut which they full heartedly believe will solve all of the environmental problems that we have on this earth. Now personally I do not understand why someone has to consume the donut. Why can’t the donut just sit there? Regardless the moral of the story is that we as humans need to be more courteous to the earth and the health of the