Doubt: A Parable

This play is frustrating because it gives no concrete conclusion at the end. We are left to decide what happened for ourselves. This is frustrating to me because it makes the message more disguised. Maybe the point of the play is not to praise one subject and condemn another, but then I don't what the point is. I would say that I sympathized with Flynn for the most part of the book, as Sister Aloysius did not seem justified in her pursuit of Flynn. I felt as though Flynn was accused wrongly and was the subject of some other motive of Aloysius. This changed somewhat at the end of the story and would have changed completely had the truth been explicitly explained. I think that an important passage is the one where Aloysius states that she lied to Flynn in order to make him do something he wouldn't have normally done. I think this is important as it brings up the question of what makes a moral decision become immoral. Does the fact that the consequences may be moral make the action moral? I guess doubt was a good title for this play as that is the emotion it brought out the most from reading it. It was hard to believe any of the characters even though they were all people of the church. I did not like how sure Aloysius was the entire time. It made her seem pretentious. I liked the character of Flynn, but that would change if I were told that the suspicions were proven true. I liked the passion of James and I believe she had a good moral compass, but she is too easy to persuade. She needs to listen to both sides and decide what she believes. The character I liked least was Mrs. Muller. I understand that she does not want to be told how to raise her children, but it is absurd to look past the wellbeing of your child for other reasons.