Character Analysis Doubt

Sister Aloysius quickly made up her mind that Father Flynn was guilty of doing something to Donald before consulting with him. Although, before being told about the incident, Sister Aloysius had already been keeping a close watch on the two males. She seen Father Flynn grab a child’s wrist, and suspected something would happen to Donald due to race. Sister Aloysius is uncomforted by affection so she becomes concerned after the incident between Father Flynn and the child’s wrist, which creates some suspicion toward Father Flynn. In the end, of the play she tells Sister James about how she doubts herself because there was no actual

“Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.” Based upon a few indirect details and various intuition, the ultra-strict, Sister Aloysius Beauvier believes that one of the priests, Father Flynn, at the St. Nicholas Catholic Church and School has been molesting a twelve-year-old boy named Donald Muller, the school 's only African American student. To help her, Sister Aloysius recruits a young and naive nun, Sister James, to assist her in monitoring the suspicious yet charismatic Father Flynn. She also addresses her concerns to Donald 's mother, who surprisingly is not horrified or even shocked by the allegations. She is more concerned about her son getting through high school and avoiding a beating from his dad instead of what her son is going through at school. Close to the ending of the play

No one really wins in the power struggle. Even though both Father Flynn and Sister Aloysius seemed to gain the upper hand on one another, they ended up in a stalemate. Sister Aloysius used lies to get rid of Father Flynn. She tries to justify her actions and convince herself that she did the right thing but at the end of the day there will always be a sense of doubt and uncertainty in the back of her mind. Father Flynn may have gotten a promotion and a new position, but still had his reputation tarnished and had to leave a school in which he enjoyed working at. The difference in beliefs between both Father Flynn and Sister Aloysius led to this conflict. If both Father Flynn and Sister Aloysius were both either conservatives or liberals, they may have not even clashed in the first place and none of these evens might have

The way Father Flynn is around people shows his innocence. He has a positive impact on the school to everyone except Sister Aloysius. Father Flynn creates the message, not guilty by his relationships. Many people find him likable. Teachers trust him and go to him for help. David Mueller is a black student at St. Nicholas, whom does not feel like he belongs. However, David Mueller finds a father figure in Father Flynn and looks at him as a role model. David Mueller’s mom also had great respect for Father Flynn because he included David Mueller and made him feel appreciated at St. Nicholas. “You know, Father Flynn, Father Flynn. He looks up to him. The man gives him his time, which is what the boy needs. He needs that” (Stanley 44). Also, the mother did not hear about David Mueller getting bullied when he came home from

In the story Father Flynn can be described as charming and caring. Although father Flynn can described with nice characteristics trait Sister Aloysius does not see the person

This is very funny because we can see that Jack is also lying about his brother, but he is judging Algernon as if he is a very honest person.

I then changed the “I don’t always,” meme to “I don’t always go bunburying, but when I do Aunt Augusta is having a dinner party.” This shows immorality in Algernon, he lies to his own family to miss a dinner just because it will feel awkward for him. On pages 6-9, Algernon talks about Mr. Bunbury to Jack and Lady Bracknell. Jack advises him to be honest and go to dinner party, while Lady Bracknell seems aware of his scheme but allows it to continue. Algernon tries to escape his aunt that night by saying Mr. Bunbury is sick, but will try to make sure he is better by the dinner party. It is immoral to lie to anyone, but to lie to your family is worse. It also shows how despite everyone knowing that he is out bunburying and not taking care of his supposedly sick friend. These issues highlighted have become issues in today’s society.

In the beginning, Mrs. Reilly tolerates Ignatius and his lack of self -control, structure and independence. She finds a few friends that encourage her and she initiates opinions and making decisions for herself. Mrs. Reilly still tries to defend Ignatius’ actions, but she later questions the way he lives. Her only evidence that he is a good boy is that he earned a master’s degree. Her lack of teaching him social skills and keeping structure in the home is shown throughout as Ignatius attempts to obtain and keep a job. He has no independence, or feels the need to become independent. The dynamic of the relationship changes as Mrs. Reilly decides that he cannot handle the real world and prefers her own

In the novel, Shanley reveals the differences between the characters, of Sister Aloysius who is the stern traditionalist, the complete opposite of Father Flynn who is a very fun, kind, and a progressive person. Sister Aloysius thinks that Father Flynn’s ways of living life are very strange and is appalled by his habits, because she feels very nervous and threatened that Father Flynn will take over the church, and tradition will leave the system. Sister Aloysius likes to have her own specific list of beliefs, and traditions, so when she sees Father Flynn’s long fingernails, and the amount of sugars he puts in his tea, she becomes outraged, shocked, and appalled by the ways that he enjoys living his life. Sister Aloysius says: “Your fingernails.” Father Flynn replies

He shows this throughout little-scattered comments in the play and Algernon blatantly saying that marriage is not something that is very pleasant. Some of his more poignant criticisms of a Victorian marriage is of how people would happily get married to people who they did not know as long as it was an advantageous pairing. It is mentioned many times and is a central idea of the play that the two couples, Jack and Gwendolyn and Algernon and Cecily, barely know even the simplest facts about each other. In Jack and Gwendolyn’s case, she did not even know his eye color for the longest time. With Algernon and Cecily, she was ready to marry him before they ever even saw each other.

Algernon Moncreiff on the other hand, lied to get to the coutnry so he could find something more genuine as opposed to the false honesty of the city. Again, one sees the same dichotomy as one would see in Jack. Alge lied to get to Cecily, his true love, which again is genuine. Cecily Cardew has a dichotomous personality as well. On the outside, Cecily appears to be innotcent and very victorian like, which represents the victorian dewfinitionof honesty. However, if one dug a little deeper, they would see that Cecily is much like a female version of a dandy. She has wicked thoughts, which represent her genuine, truly honest self.

Let the Right One In follows the life of 12-year-old Oskar (Kare Hedebrant) living with his single mother in an apartment near Stockholm, Sweden. Director Tomas Alfredson does a great job at focusing on Oskar as he overcomes difficulties thrown at him throughout the film, allowing us to understand what goes on in Oskars head and how he changes overtime with the help of Eli (Lina Leandersson).

In the second scene of the play you see Sister James ways of kindness and how she doesn’t see the bad in people. To Sister Aloysius she doesn’t see

Algernon’s aunt Lady Brackell is an uptight rich women who I know I’d never like or get along with mostly because she thinks she and her family are better than the rest of us. I think it’s funny that Lady Brackell liked all of Earnest answers involving why he’d be a good husband for her daughter Gwendolyn except for the fact that Earnest has no parents and was left in a handbag as a baby to be found by an old county man who raised him. Lady Brackell thinks Earnest is careless and says Gwendolyn could never marry

Jack’s creation of a fictional brother Ernest gives audience an impression that he is a hypocritical person who ignores the consequences of being dishonest. Only when his desire to marry Gwendolen is threatened does he learn that he cannot escape from responsibility or “come up to town as often as [he] like[s]” (Act 1, p.8). Suffering from the dilemma, his hidden sincerity and kindness are discovered. This makes him become a rounder character. As a consequence, the rest of the plot will be affected and advanced by his unique traits and