HP as Morality Play (was Re: Harry learning from Snape )

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 114758


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dzeytoun" <dzeytoun at c...> 
wrote:

Dzeytoun:

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 In this context, the whole thing becomes 
> a kind of fleshed out morality play very similar to the type of 
thing 
> done in the Middle Ages 

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> I find that a more compelling symbolic explanation of what's going  
> on than the more direct Christ analogy.  Of course, the two are not 
> mutually exclusive.

Geoff:
Well, of course, they're not! In the 15th/16th centuries, they took
place within the framework of the church and, among other things,
were a way of putting over Christian virtues in an understandable 
fashion to folk who were unable
to read and write.

Geoff
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