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@article{ART001946730},
author={So Young Yoon},
title={he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2014},
volume={27},
number={3},
pages={257-278}

TY - JOUR
AU - So Young Yoon
TI - he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2014
VL - 27
IS - 3
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 257
EP - 278
SN - 1226-3397
AB - ohn Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable(2005), a play and film, opens with Father Flynn’s line “What do you do when you’re not sure?” Well-known for winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, this play aims to show the gap between certainty and doubt by contrasting religious characters including Father Flynn, Sister Aloysius and Sister James. The political background in its setting is one during various civil rights movements for minorities like African Americans and women during the 1960s. As indicated in the title, this play has a sub-title, ‘a parable’. According to Mark Turner, a parable, a source for many stories, is connected with the operation and production of a person’s doubt stemmed from her distorted perspectives and recognition. Doubt as a title and main theme of Shanley’s play, which was filmed, operates as an element of numerous scattered doubts. It is symbolized by feathers that are thrown into the sky by a woman who cut a pillow on a rooftop. Doubts like feathers from a pillow floating in the air cannot be grasped but spread quickly to any place. In this vein, doubt arises from the contexts made up of rhetorical tension. Also, contextual meaning is coined by functions of the signifier and cognition. Sister Aloysius’s conjectures based on doubt motivate to expel Father Flynn from the parish by accusing him of homosexuality and pedophilia. In the end, Sister Aloysius approved her stance by saying “I have doubts. I have such doubts.” Therefore, doubt as a signifier, woven like a parable, has operated like political offense and defense by producing other groundless doubts. Also, the mechanics of doubt can cause relationships to be broken; moreover, doubts lead to the lack of communication between characters. Thus it is recognized that the signifier ‘doubt’ has a tremendous power to produce far more doubts through human cognitive operations and results in a huge gap between them.
KW - John Patrick Shanley;Doubt;parable;hegemony of language;rhetorical tension
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So Young Yoon. (2014). he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable. Journal of Modern English Drama, 27(3), 257-278.

So Young Yoon. 2014, "he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.27, no.3 pp.257-278.

So Young Yoon "he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable" Journal of Modern English Drama 27.3 pp.257-278 (2014) : 257.

So Young Yoon. he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable. 2014; 27(3), 257-278.

So Young Yoon. "he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable" Journal of Modern English Drama 27, no.3 (2014) : 257-278.

So Young Yoon. he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable. Journal of Modern English Drama, 27(3), 257-278.

So Young Yoon. he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2014; 27(3) 257-278.

So Young Yoon. he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable. 2014; 27(3), 257-278.

So Young Yoon. "he Mechanics of Doubt and Absence of Communication in Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable" Journal of Modern English Drama 27, no.3 (2014) : 257-278.