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Who Shall Die or Les Bouches inutiles (The Useless Mouths) is the only Drama written by Simone de Beauvoir. The play takes place in 14th Century Vaucelles, a city in Flanders. The Useless Mouths centers around the d’Avesnes' family and their adopted children, Jean-Pierre and Jeanne during the siege against the Burgundians.
Who shall live and who shall die, Who shall reach the end of his days and who shall not, Who shall perish by water and who by fire, Who by sword and who by wild beast, Who by famine and who by thirst, Who by earthquake and who by plague, Who by strangulation and who by stoning, Who shall have rest and who shall wander,
29 de mar. de 2015 · The will/shall distinction is both vague and controversial but the general consensus is that shall indicates intent, obligation, or duty, while will refers to simple futurity. To anyone who subscribes to this dichotomy, the sentence "You will die" is an unarguable observation about human mortality, but "You shall die" is nothing less ...
One of her last novels was in the form of a diary recording; it told of the slow death of her life-long compatriot, Jean Paul Sartre. On April 14, 1986, Simone de Beauvoir, one of the mothers of...
Beauvoir only wrote one play, Les Bouches Inutiles (Who Shall Die?) which was performed in 1945-the same year of the founding of Les Temps Modernes. Clearly enmeshed in the issues of World War II Europe, the dilemma of this play focuses on who is worth sacrificing for the benefit of the collective.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Bouches inutiles is Who Shall Die? This less literal translation than Useless Mouths highlights the central issue of the play, whose action takes place in Vaucelles, a medieval city under siege which is gradually considering the need to sacrifice a certain number of lives among its citizenry in order to survive. In
