Character of Simone in the play the pen of my aunt by Gordon Daviot
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Madame, the owner of a country house
Simone, her young servant
Stranger, a French soldier on the run
Corporal, a German soldier
The external conflicts in the play:
Germans have occupied France and now France is no longer a free country. Then a French soldier gets captured by a German corporal. The French soldier is walking in the woods without any papers with him. Then the conflict goes on to get resolved when Madame said that the soldier is her nephew. But then another conflict arises as the corporal demands for the papers of the soldier. It again gets resolved when Simone forge a lie that the papers might have been taken away to the laundry. The third conflict arises when the corporal comes in with Simone stating that he overheard her saying that she has never seen the stranger.
The protagonist is the Madame. When something happened, she always can think out a way to turn peril into safety.
The theme of the play is that war is abominable thing.
I think it wasn't morally right to lie. Morals will change in the war. Human want to survive, so they can do any evil things.
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