Our Country's Good

Our country's good is written by British playwrite Timberlake Wentenbaker. In the class read through I  discovered that the play talks about topics that are relevant in today's society such as the whole idea of punishment vs rehabilitation in which each character in the play is either on the side of  punishment Captain Ross,Captain Campbell and Captain Tench or Rehabilitation Philip, Collin and Ralph Clark. I am personally on the side of rehabilitation because the convicts after a certain amount of time will be sent back into society and If they are taught a better way to live life it will stop them committing any crimes and make society a better place to live in. This play started to make me think about the prison system that we have in today and how it doesn't really help anyone as It seems to me people end up in prison get released then end up coming back because they don't know what else to do as society has already cast this black cloud over them stopping them from living a happy life as they would find it hard to get jobs. As the play develops I find it interesting that the convicts who began to hate each other through the play the Ralph plans to put on become a little family therefore theater has a power to bring people together as a united force. This play that Ralph is putting on also helps to educate the female convicts as they are playing rich women so they begin to learn their physicality and their traits which then can be used when they are released from prison it has also been teaching them to read this then links that theater can be used as a common education tool.