EXPOSING BIBLICAL INFERENCES AND MULTIFACETED IDENTITY REVEALED IN NORMAN MCKINNEL’S THE BISHOP’S CANDLESTICKS

Abstract

Norman McKinnel, a Scottish stage and film actor, wrote the one-act play titled The Bishop’s
Candlesticks. This play is based on the story narrated by Victor Hugo in his novel Les
Miserables. The plot of the play is a highly appreciated humanistic story portraying love and the
kind of protagonist. The bishop is considered the protagonist who leads a saintly life by adhering
to religious principles. McKinnel has positioned the bishop as a significant character expressing
the biblical values that he wanted to promulgate across the globe. In addition, this one-act play
hints at the concept of identity and identity crisis. Reading these aspects has motivated the
researcher to write the present research paper. To explore biblical implications identified in the
play, I have referred to the Bible and analyzed the text from the biblical perspective. There have
been innumerable research on the concept of identity and identity crisis, but the idea of identity
has not been explored in the selected text; therefore, this research paper attempted to deal with it.