Summary of the Play (on Film) "Children of a Lesser God"
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:22:09
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 4 pages (1093 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 4 pages (1093 words)
"In the beginning, there was only silence," James Leeds says at the very beginning
of Children of a Lesser God, "and out of that silence there could come only one thing:
Speech. That's right. Human speech. So, speak!''' he could not have been more wrong.
In this opening speech, James appears to establish silence, and by extension
deafness, as "bad," and speech and sound (and hearing) as "good." This is the distinction
which most …
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…cannot stay
with him. Maybe, she muses, they will be able to meet somewhere "not in silence or in
sound but somewhere else. I don't know where that is now."
Out of that silence came speech, but it was forced and pained. Out of that silence
also came love, strength, self-knowledge, and beauty. James's demand that Sarah be
"normal" refuses to acknowledge the idea that normalcy
is in the mind and eye of the beholder.
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