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| Original Title: | The Children's Hour |
| ISBN: | 0822202050 (ISBN13: 9780822202059) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Lillian Hellman
Paperback | Pages: 75 pages Rating: 4 | 11567 Users | 186 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Children's Hour |
| Author | : | Lillian Hellman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Acting Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 75 pages |
| Published | : | 1953 by Dramatists Play Service (first published 1934) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Classics. Theatre. Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer |
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This is a serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumour about the two women, the rumour soon turns into a scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for the women. It is later discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but it is too late. Irreparable damage has been done.Rating Out Of Books The Children's Hour
Ratings: 4 From 11567 Users | 186 ReviewsCritique Out Of Books The Children's Hour
This tiny play is packed with tension. I knew the basic plot (at a 1930s boarding school for girls, one of the students starts a harmful rumor about the two women who run the school), and technically there's not much that happens beyond that. But Hellman is so skilled at building a creeping, chilling dread, and she creates an interesting portrait of a little girl who compulsively lies. Recommended for a quick, dark read.A tragic story of how an angry, malicious lie can lead to absolute, far-reaching destruction for many people. It reminded me of the storyline of Atonement (at least the movie: I haven't been able to get through the book yet). Rumors spread and listened to, acted upon, can have disastrous consequences, and letting children get spoiled and not making them take responsibility for their actions can be just as detrimental. 3/5
Despite the use of homosexuality as trigger to drive someone to ruin, Hellman's play delivers a strong message about kindness and righteousness. Surely groundbreaking for its time, it feels slightly awkward, yet still sadly relevant today.
Children are the worst.
Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (1934) proves itself to be of perennial relevance. From HUAC to the Tumblrized call out culture of the 2010s, the little liars and exaggerators like Mary Tilford bully and blacklist and attempt to destroy anyone who gets in their way. THAT SAID, isn't it kind of funny that Lillian Hellman's most important play was all about the dangers of lying while the writer herself was accused of making up and exaggerating sections of her own memoirs? Although, to be
This book is frightening in so many ways. I teach in an all-girl high school and I have seen how gossiping can be so damaging but what it pains me the most it is the fact that most girls don't realize how their words can change somebody's life, usually for the worse. Like Mary, everything is a game where they have to win no matter what, but behind their "victories" there is the worst side of human behavior. And like Karen, you try to make them realize that but sometimes it is a lost battle
read in high school - One of my favorite plays ever.
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