Brief Summary Of The Play Disgraced

Disgraced is a drama play that was produced first produced in 2012. The play takes place in a spacious apartment on New York's Upper East Side. The play has three different time periods through the play in 2011-2012. With the first two scenes taking place in late summer of 2011.The third scene takes place three months later in the fall. The final scene is six months later in the spring. Disgrace exhibits over those time periods themes of person vs religion, person vs. self.
From the beginning of the play, you can see Amir's conflict with his Muslim religion. He isn't comfortable with being classified as a Muslim man; especially because he is a corporate lawyer for a Jewish law firm. Amir's nephew Abe is what makes him have to face his religion.
In one particular part of the scene Amir is talking about the Quran; he states that it says if a woman doesn't obey her husband he is allowed to beat her. When bringing it up Amir uses it as a point to justify why he doesn't want to follow the religion. On the contrary, once he finds out that Emily and Isaac were having an affair he slaps her around.Because of this Emily ultimately leaves him, and asks for a divorce; leaving Amir time to self-reflect on his actions for months with Emily moving out. Months later with this being the first time seeing Emily, he tries to apologize and just have a conversation with her. Emily jumps at the sight of his touch and moves away from him everytime he keeps walking towards her. This moment forces Amir to take responsibility for his actions, and face that he has become exactly what he didn't want to be. Another moment where Amir has to face himself is when Jory tells him she's getting the promotion. Furthermore, Jory explains the reasoning for him not getting the promotion is because of lying saying that he is of Indian descent. A short time after this Amir loses his job, which gives him time to reflect if lying about his religion was worth his