Edward Bond | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of Edward Bond.

Edward Bond | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of Edward Bond.
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The concerns of The Bundle (1978), the play written after The Woman, are in many ways similar to its predecessor, but with one vital difference. Where previously the action taken against injustice was contained in the revolt by certain individuals and therefore was to some extent isolated action, in The Bundle, a group of individuals combine to overthrow another group of oppressors. Change is shown as a practical reality…. In The Bundle the causes of evil are dealt with by the guerrillas led by Wang, the child abandoned by the river. In one of the most deliberately shocking scenes of the play, Wang hurls an abandoned baby into the river to die, for the alternative is to do good in the apparent world. It is a scene which demands of its audience an enormous effort of concentration and judgement in order to see the distinctions and the analysis made...

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