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British Drama

Notes Numbing : Incapable of action or of feeling emotion; enervated; prostrate: numb with grief.
Or lacking or deficient in emotion or feeling; indifferent.
Humiliating : Lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying.

32.4 Review Questions

1. Explore the three sources of power in the play Root.
2. How is Arnold Wesker tried his best explores the theme of self-discovery?
3. Why is it so threatening for Joan to dress like a man?
4. Elucidate that by the end of the play Beatie has been let down by everybody.
5. Give a critical view on Self-discovery.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. (a) 2. (b) 3. self-discovery
4. heroine 5. True 6. False

32.5 Further Readings

Arnold Wesker. 1959. Roots: The Second Play of the Chicken Soup Trilogy. Penguin
Books.
Robert Wilcher. 1991. Understanding Arnold Wesker. University of South Carolina
Press, Columbia, S. Carolina.

Online links http://www.arnoldwesker.com/synopses/roots.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jan/26/theatre

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