Doubt written by John Patrick Shanley
Release Date: December 1st, 2008
Publisher: Theater Community Group
Format of the Novel: Paper back
Summary: Couldn't find a proper summary for this particular story.
(Sorry for not posting yesterday, was spending memorial day with the family)
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Unlike the other stories I have review in the last week or so, this one is was a short play with 64 pages to its name, a movie, and a Pulitzer prize for drama under its belt. I read this last fall for my Intro to creative writing class and we have watched the movie as well. In my honest opinion, the short book was better than the movie.
This play focuses on the emphasis of doubt when people witness some serious situations that are normally kept secret in the 1960s. In this story readers are focusing their attention on the main nun, Sister Aloysius Beauvier and her growing mission to discover the truth between Pastor Brendan Flynn. Upon learning about possible inappropriate actions between Pastor Flynn and one of the young students at the church, both Sister Beauvier and Sister James attempt to figure out the truth by lying and watching Pastor Flynn with a very close eye.
Considering the fact this play contained a limited point of view, readers are mostly focused on Sister Beauvier and how she goes on her rampage to keep the church to its original standards instead of going through changes. As a reader, you can easily see the tension rising and how Sister Beaunver beings to lose herself as a person. This whole play brings out different questions with wither or not people should take action for stuff that never really occurred and that's why Shanley uses the term 'Doubt' in a very powerful and realistic way. This play was very enjoyable regardless of the fact its a short and somewhat religious play, and I enjoyed the movie even though it dragged on. If you want to focus on realistic fiction, then go this short play.
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