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Essay on Aspects of the Drama

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Essay on Aspects of the Drama

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Running head: WHO WILL CARRY THE WORDWHO WILL CARRY THE WORDName of the Student:Name of the UniversityAuthor Note:
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WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD1The essay discusses various aspects of the drama Who Will Carry the Word by Frenchwriter Charlotte Delbo. It is an autobiographical presentation of the dramatist written in 1966.It was a less popular drama with great intensity and heart wrenching impact. The play depictsthe absolute weakness and deprivation of mankind but simultaneously demonstrates kindnessand strength of same mankind (Wachsmann 310). The drama portrays the situation wherepersonal becomes political and nobody can escape such fact.The playwright Charlotte Delbo has recorded a true account abased on her lifeexperience in 1943. she was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942 as part of the FrenchResistance against Nazi Germany. She was a part of the group of female convicts anddemonstrates their struggle for surviving the horrific and unimaginable circumstances.Among 229, only 49 women survived and this play asks who will survive finally among themto carry the word.The truth of the dream is brutal as well as painful. The script proves that only theperson can record such incidents who has first-hand experience of such torture (Chalmers185). The paly attempts and describes the aspects of terrible life in the German concentrationcamp. She makes the audience realise the special responsibility of mankind that is kindness.They must not forget the trauma as well as horror in the concentration camp. They must owea debt to the suffers collectively. The play focuses on the unspoken violence in the prison where women are kept. Theguards are also present but like shadow. Like Greek drama, their actions are never seen butfelt or spoken. There are no chorus but these women serve as chorus. They know oneanother’s’ pain and bear witness to every events. From the very beginning Claire requestsFrancoise not to commit suicide because there must be someone who survive to represent andtell this horrifying experience. this play carries subtle morbidity that never actually show that
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WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD2the women are dead. It emphasises more on describing the emotional toll hoe the cold,exhausting and long days gradually engulfed them. The paly records a sort of interpretivedance at one point of time often miming beatings, as well as gassings.Each woman told somepiece of their own stories, one more heart-breaking than the other. the youngest girl wastalking that she was afraid of dream of home and her family as she would never be able tomeet them again. Every day the women used die of cold, exhaustion and starvation. Some ofthem were desperate to throw themselves onto electrified fences, but the guards used to pickthem off with the rifles.Despite the fact the history of torture in the German concentration camp is wellknown from the records of many courageous survivors but this play never leaves opportunityto shock the audience through its portrayal of incidents (Coelho 104). The characters are rawand exposed to the torture in different forms but they portray ample strength, courage as wellas solidarity though do not even know one other's names. The play explores the true facts oftheir lives in prison. They often deal with hunger, humiliation, death of family members.They see the babies being smothered in petrol then set alight (Peleg et al. 441). Theyvisualize rats chewing body parts of their families and mates who are so crippled with illnessthat lost ability to move. They miraculously combat on such unimaginable condition andsurvive. This play would have nothing if not authentic. The dramatist Charlotte Delbosurvived the extermination camp. She came back to her native France in the year 1945 andraised the past from its ashes in order to carry the word (Nawijn, Jeroen, and MarieChristin225). There is no doubt about the drama’s sincerity. It is disturbing but passionate and honest.The play is set in the context of second world war and Hitler’s monopoly in theworld’s polity. According to the holocaust scholars, after Hitler became chancellor, his party
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