Stolen: Hope for the Future Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Stolen.

Stolen: Hope for the Future Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Stolen.
This section contains 690 words
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Stolen: Hope for the Future

Summary: Discusses the Jane Harrison play, Stolen. Analyzes many of the main characters, many of whom display a lack of hope. Explores how some of the characters maintain their hope and dreams under difficult circumstances.
Clearly all the children in Jane Harrison's Stolen were forcibly removed from their homes, that is their biological parents. Subsequently all the children experienced intense psychological and physical anguish. However the play does give the impression that there still remains hope for some of the children. Through the children's experiences it becomes apparent that their ambitions in life may well be fulfilled to a certain degree with the exception of Ruby. In her case, there is no hope.

The wondering and alienated Sandy, displayed hope when he eventually decided to return to the land he called home, "the red desert." In this place, Sandy might find refuge from the tiring and lonely life he had lived in the institution. Throughout the play he talks about his home with nostalgia, with hope of returning some day. Outwardly he suffered no signs of physical nor psychological anguish as a result...

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