Purgatory
Purgatory
Play By: w.B. yeats
This is shoot play ‘purgatory’ is written by the famous
writer W.B. Yeats. The theme of this play is related to the crime and its confession yeats has expressed his brief that there is also a life after death
through this play the meaning of ‘ purgatory’ is place of expiation and is tested for new
life.
There are mainly characters in this plays the old man and
the boy. The ghost of the old mans parents are also seen as the dialogue
proceeds. The old man is accompanied by his sixteen years old son who is a bastard one. In the play the old man say how and why he murdered his father. He
says that his mother had owned the houses, the surroundings scenery the country
side, kennel stable, horse and sounds. She was very rich. The old man’s father
was a groom in a training stable Although she was an aristocratic lady. She fail in love with
the groom and married him. He got the girl and her property. He started to
waste the properties in gambling, drinking, women and horse race. She didn’t
know the most worst, Consequences the followed because she died at the child
birth. The child (The old man) grew up saw every worst thing done by his Father
and at he age of sixteen stabbed his father to death.
And the old man was going to kill the boy because he thought
the boy was himself sin in the family. Because he was a bastard. So to make huge family free from the sin, he stabbed the boy
with the same knife that he used to kill his father.
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