Doubt: A Parable

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

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Do you think that Sister Aloysius always experienced doubt about her suspicions, or does it come on suddenly at the end of the play? Why?

How is innocence portrayed in the play? Is it a virtue or a vice?

Father Flynn, is his opening sermon, says that “doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty” (6). How does doubt bond characters together in the play?