Children of Adoption - People Fas Harvard
Children of Adoption - People Fas Harvard
Children of Adoption - People Fas Harvard
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<strong>Children</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Adoption</strong><br />
the propagation <strong>of</strong> the human race. We can sigh with relief that Isa-<br />
bella's exit from the nunnery figures "generation redeemed." Many<br />
readers and spectators experience this comfortable gladness when Isa-<br />
bella leaves the nunnery in Act 1 ; at that point their feelings are in<br />
keeping with the gist <strong>of</strong> the play. But at that point the play has just<br />
begun, the dilemma is hardly stated, and the precise kind <strong>of</strong> genera-<br />
tion that the play redeems is still unknown. It is the business <strong>of</strong> the<br />
rest <strong>of</strong> the play to bring that generation, indeed all human generation,<br />
under a new and discomforting scrutiny.