Essays on Aloysius

Introduction

Doubt, a Parable is a play based on a story by John Patrick Shanley that happens in 1964 in a Catholic school in New York’s northernmost borough, the Bronx. The story emerges when Sister James, a newly appointed teacher at the school, develops doubts that the relationship between Father Flynn, a priest, and a student is appropriate. She confides in Sister Aloysius, the principal, about this fear. The story unfolds when Sister Aloysius attempts to get to the bottom of this allegation. Through this attempt, her character traits emerge. She is not only watchful, but also unsentimental, and ...

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Doubt can never be compared with certainty in terms of providing a sense of community powerful as faith. A community in doubt is a divided community sine people live with mistrust and cannot tell what they expect of that community. As a single mother, I have never trusted any man who claims that he can take care of me and my child. It is not easy to trust a man anymore after what I have learnt from my married friends and how their husbands are unfaithful. This doubt creates mistrust a and poor social bonds between me and men within the society. Personal ...

The United States providing subsidies for corn upsets their competitors such as Mexico because it would subject them into unfair competition. The Mexicans traders would face fluctuation in prices of corns due to the subsidies in America. It implies that the American government would disadvantages farmers or traders in Mexico in the sense that that they would not be trading on the same grounds as to the America based traders (Holland, 2009 p 210). In other terms, it means that subsidies in America would lead to unfair competition such as the terms and condition of the trade. The government ...

The film “Doubt” which was released in 2008 is based on a Pulitzer Prize winning stage play written by John Patrick Shanley. The story is set at a Catholic church in the Bronx, New York, in the year of 1964. At the beginning of the film Father Flynn (portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman) gives a sermon, announcing that the topic of it will be “What do you do when you not sure?” (“Doubt”, 2008) This sermon is a perfect introduction to the events that are soon to follow, for all the main characters of the story will have to deal with their doubts ...