For whom does the death knell toll?

Conrad 2022-04-19 09:02:44

The significance of tragedy is to trigger people's reflection on life, pay attention to their own desires, and learn from them. This is also the value of literature and drama. Good literature and good drama must be tragic, because people are only willing to think out of their will when they are in pain, inertia and dependence on will have always made people live under the illusion of hope for happiness, and tragedy. It was the blow to the head that woke the sleeping people, just like in the play, when it was determined that there was no so-called detective and suicide, the family's continued joy without remorse undoubtedly reflected the most essential evil of human beings. When the phone rang and the father confirmed that the suicide was a fact, the whole family's stunned expressions flashed with the awakening of Chi Wu from a dream.

Literature, drama is to show the concept of life, the essence of human beings. A play that can reflect the Platonic concept is a good work. In the play, human jealousy, greed, suspicion, selfishness, obsession with desire, desire for reputation rights and unscrupulous maintenance are all objectively displayed in front of the audience. These are the sins of mankind. The house of sin is but a microcosm of human society, father (greed), mother (suspicious), daughter (jealousy), son-in-law, son (desire), but a collection of human sins.

She is dead. The family who thought it had nothing to do with this did not know that the death knell rang through everyone's heart. Every single aspect of life is intertwined with each other, and that's how the world works. House of Sin, a miniature world view.




For whom does the death knell toll? The death knell tolls for you.

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An Inspector Calls quotes

  • Arthur Birling: [about his workers] If you don't come down hard on some of these people, they'll soon be asking for the earth.

    Gerald Croft: [obsequiously] That's right.

    The Inspector: They might. But it's better to ask for the earth than to take it.

  • [last lines]

    Arthur Birling: [hanging up the phone] A girl has died. Suicide. A police inspector is on his way to ask us some questions.