Deliver Us From Evil Sparknotes

Elizabeth Cunningford emphasizes that Doubt engages with the question of child abuse and sexuality in regard to Father Flynn. In doing so, Cunningford compares the play to Amy Berg’s documentary Deliver Us from Evil and Michael Murphy’s drama Sin, where she argues that Doubt does in fact offer a less realistic tone since Shanley misses the mark to incorporate any formal evidence or the victim’s testimony. Nevertheless, the article suggest the sexuality comes into play with the focus towards the love between and priest and boy. At the same time, the relationship between the priest and the child put forth the argument that Cunningford highlights the child abuse in the Catholic church. Although Cunning ford provides a good insight about the history of clerical child abuse, the articles does not come to full explore the examples that suggest Father Flynn is a priest who is possibly gay, not offer another character’s insight. However, the article does establish the dynamic between Father
She acknowledges the different ways knowledge and belief work together. The article suggests that these two provide a great illustrate that doubt is type of belief works well to establish how words are empty yet full. Her illustration of knowledge and belief reflects Shanley’s Doubt in which the play works with the theme of words; Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn use words against each other the way knowledge and belief provide questions about the Donald Muller. However, Garber does establish a brief response to the play as to illustrate the questions regarding an alleged abuse between Father Flynn and Donald Muller. Although she makes a detailed illustration that knowledge and belief, the two are a process of active play. Thus, the article makes use to illustrate how Doubt works well to understand Sister Aloysius and Father’s Flynn