MORALITY AND POLITICS IN TOM STOPPARD

This paper argues how Tom Stoppard reflects his moral and political concerns in his plays. Stoppard is a moral writer and opposes any political idea rejecting morality, particularly under the name of modernity. Nevertheless, he is not a political writer and his power of comedy suppresses his ideological criticism. He is a man of universal writing avoiding daily and would-be out of date news. Though the playwright seems to favour conservative beliefs and ideas, in his plays, personal choices are preferred to a morality imposed by the laws or legislations because he believes that there cannot be fixed moral realities. He has proved to be a man of human rights both with his thoughts and actions. His criticism of Marxism and Leninism is a clear evidence of it. While tolerating the mistaken ideas of artists, he does not show the slightest sympathy for the political oppressors.