Q: Explain the title of the “Smoke-Screens” in your own words.
Ans:
“Smoke-Screens’ is a beautiful drama written by a popular dramatist Harold Brighouse. In the play, the word “Smoke-Screens" is used twice. At one occasion, when Primrose tells Susan that she was hiding her ideas and ways from her as a smoke-screen does.
Secondly, at the end of the play, Lucy gives too much cigarette smoke from her mouth and says: “I’m behind the screen, you John. It's very simple. John, if you are not kind to Primrose I shall shoot you.”
In the play, the writer shows that the outward behaviour of people is quite different from their inner self. Smoke-screen means the screens of ideas behind which the main characters hide themselves from each other. They have their own ideas and views according to their age groups and experiences.
In the play, three women, Lucy, Susan and Primrose are the representatives of three different age groups, in the last part of the play, Primrose declares to marry an ugly man John. Actually, this was entirely against the wishes and ideas of her mother and her aunt. They were not expecting from her to marry with an ugly man because Primrose was a modem girt. This is what that there is a smoke-screen behind her ideas.
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