Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Christopher Durang
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The late 1970’s
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Satire, Drama, Psychological drama, Didactic literature, Autobiographical drama
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Values, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Tradition, Power, personal or social, Guilt, Catholics or Catholic Church, Nuns
- Locales: United States
Characters Discussed
Sister Mary Ignatius, a nun and fifth grade teacher at what she calls Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow School. Sister Mary appears in an old-fashioned nun’s habit; her age is uncertain, but she might be anywhere from forty to sixty. Although she displays many human characteristics, Sister Mary is a caricature of an earnest but oppressive parochial school teacher, more concerned with doctrine than with truth. One of her chief assertions is that God answers all prayers, but that sometimes the answer is no. She lectures directly to the audience, occasionally...
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