Eclipsed Danai Gurira Sparknotes

Eclipsed by Danai Gurira is about 3 women are held captive on a rebel camp in the midst of the Liberian civil war. The central ideas of the play are identity and finding power in times where you are not granted any. It relates to the title because an eclipse is to “deprive (someone or something) of significance, power, or prominence.” (Google definitions) Helena and Bessie are the two characters we meet right away. They are wives Number One and Three to the CO. The Girl is later caught by the CO and becomes wife Number Four. Throughout the play, the women only ever refer to each other by their numbers. This reinforces the idea that their identity is taken away from them. The Girl has this internal crisis within herself once she becomes