What were the Themes, Issues and Implications of the drama?

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What were the Themes, Issues and Implications of the drama?

Firstly, it was about whether Capital Punishment is right or wrong. The whole drama was set in a prison and based on a man, Jack Canfield, who was waiting for his sentence of death. Throughout the drama, Prison officers, News Press, Jacks family and the Victims family gave their views on Capital punishment, moulding the drama and to help plan what their character would do in the drama. E.g. Mr. Mculorch (head prison guard) believed Capital Punishment to be right, so therefore was violent towards Jack and beat him up on several occasions.  Mr. Arthur Sing on the other hand, thought Capital Punishment was wrong, and so strongly believed this he gave Jack the keys to his cell hoping that Jack would escape and his life would be spared.

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The drama was also about Faith. Jack said that God had told him to murder the women. So, I thought that Jack must have a lot of faith in God to do what God had ‘allegedly’ told him, and to believe something good will happen to him eventually.

        

Then Jack completely changed his mind and said that his brother Don had killed the women, and the fact that Jack had been in contact with some of the women was because he was trying to protect them. Jack was trying to make out he was some kind of saint, making ...

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