What do you think this play reveals about our need for freedom? About the power of love? About courage and hope? About good and evil? In your answers, consider how the play’s themes relate to the themes of another work, such as The Taming of the Shrew.
I think this play reveals about our need for freedom because it shows us what it would be like in hiding. How dreadful and stressing it is. Such as for Anne, with no freedom in how she has to act, most of the time quietly, it shows how stressed and blocked she felt. Normally a hyper loud girl had to become quiet. With no freedom it shows how people would have to live, in order to live close to being free. The Franks, Van Daans, and Dussel were in hiding, which showed how they lived under the rule of the Nazis. We need freedom, freedom is how we are able to be ourselves.
This also reveals the power of love in such persecution of being trapped in a room, and also between the family relationships. Whenever they had problems, Anne turned to her family. Especially to her dad. They all stayed loyal to each other and especially Mr. Frank. He showed love to even the Van Daans and Dussel. He was courageous and loyal to the family even through hard times. Even though they get caught in the end, they were able to stay together as a family through love.
This reveals courage and hope because while they are in hiding, they hope and have courage that they can surivve and that they will get through the hard times. Even though there are people who hate them and ALLL the Jews, Anne has hope that there are people who still have good in their heart. Such a hard thing to believe in, even through all the trouble. Anne had courage also because she faced what was to come ahead.
In this I can't really explain or talk about the good and evil. That the Nazis were evil? And that the Jews were good? No, but I can tell that everybody in hiding was brave enough and good enough to face the evil. That they were good enough to cooperate with each other during hiding. I'm not sure about Dussel though. But still. They were good, I guess.
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