The Opressed: State of change

The choice to remain silent is ours however the choice to do something for the others is also ours.

We are given the free will to make choices for ourselves and for others however when someone is oppressed right before us, is staying quiet the best choice?

During the fourth hour our professor Sir David Wesley introduced to us about Forum Theatre, the 2nd MA students presented a wonderful play for us which was about the oppressed dogs living in the jungle among all the wild animals.

The oppressed dogs were a representation of the lower caste people in our society and how they were treated was a direct metaphor for the injustice that has occurred in history towards them in our Indian society. 

We can bring in so much change for others if we just choose to stand up and not remain quiet, our fear of falling into the same state as the oppressed stops us from actually doing so much for them, in this case we are no less than the oppressors or the bullies, we, the bystanders are equally letting evil continue in the society. 

Forum Theatre is different from traditional theatre, we the spectators become spec actors since Forum theatre performs plays that gear towards bringing a social change thus even the audience can participate and voice out their opinions.

so today when the play was over there were many others from the audience who came forward to give their opinions and suggestions on how we can stop the oppression.

Overall today was a wonderful experience, and I was able to learn a lot about Forum Theatre.