Saved | Bond’s Saved
Cardullo examines the religious imagery in
Bond’s play, noting that, contrary to the title, ‘‘no
one achieves religious salvation.’’
In his ‘‘Author’s Note’’ to Saved (1965) Edward Bond wrote:
If we are to improve people’s behaviour we must first increase their moral understanding, and this means teaching morality to children in a way that they find convincing. Although I suppose that most English people do not consciously disbelieve in the existence of God, not more than a few hundred of them fully believe in his existence. Yet almost all the morality taught to our children is grounded in religion. This in itself makes children morally bewildered—religion has nothing to...
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