Conflict In The Play 'Proof' By David Auburn

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love”. Throughout The play “proof’ the author David Auburn describe the straggle and emotion of dealing with conflict on an everyday basic between two sisters and their father.

“Proof” a play by David Auburn displays an intricate design of conflict between the characters. Catherine verses her heredity is one on the main conflict thought out the play. Catherine life wasn’t too long or perfect but she has experience difficult in personal drama where as she is emotional drained by still question herself about her father Robert mental illness. Catherine is scare that she might end up like her father. After the

Both sisters overlook their father happiness and just whine about their own point of view on their own experiences of life. The argument between the sisters began when the revolutionary math proof found in the notes of the dead scientist “a mathematical theorem about prime numbers, something mathematicians have been trying to prove since there were mathematicians, basically’’. Whereas Catherine clams she is the author of this proof, and not her father. But Claire knows that Robert was the genuine mathematicians in this young year’s.” he revolutionized the field twice before he was twenty-two”. However before Robert was mentally unstable and could hardly write the new proof whereas Catherine seems to be obviously insufficient for such a proof so Claire didn’t believe that her sister Catherine was quality to be the author of the new mathematicians because “the handwriting in the notebook looks very much like father”. Claire tough that her sister Catherine wanted to be notice for her father work so she started to question Catherine about her talent because Catherine don’t seems like she is cable of such a high level of work. “I think you owe me an apology Claire” but after all was said Catherine was the one who was right all along about the