Question

What message does the play 'The Bishop and the candlesticks' gives?

Answer 1

The play beautifully gives a very strong message of love, peace and mercy. It is that these human virtues can change even a stone into a good human being. The Bishop in the play stands for goodness. The convict in the play stands for cruel behaviour, animalism, hard heartedness and rudeness. But he has been made such a cruel person by the prison authorities. He is without any emotion because of the behaviour that he faced when he was in the prison. This treatment by the prison authorities made him a wild beast. The prison authorities transforms a human being into a convict and the Bishop changes this convict into a good living soul with the help of his love, compassion and sympathy. The Bishop turns him into a true religious and a rare human being. Thus, the play gives out a message that love compassion and mercy are the real qualities of a good human being. They can change a beast into a good human being.