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A Study Guide for Ariel Dorfman's "Hope" - Gale
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Hope
Ariel Dorfman
1982
Introduction
Ariel Dorfman's 1982 poem Hope
describes the inner struggles of a couple whose son has been kidnapped by the secret police in Chile during the regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet. They hear that a recently released prisoner learned of him being tortured, so they can hope that he is still alive. The twisted nature of the world they live in has actually made them hope that their son is being tortured, because it would at least mean that he has not been murdered yet. Hope
reflects Dorfman's own experiences in Chile in the 1970s, when he had to flee assassination or arrest by the secret police to save himself from the fate that befalls the son in the poem. His crime was simply working for a legally elected government that was overthrown by a fascist coup. But the poem also speaks to the suffering of people all over the world who must live under totalitarian regimes.
Dorfman is uniquely qualified to speak on this issue in light of his own and his family's experiences. His grandparents came to Argentina fleeing a pogrom in Europe, and his father had to move repeatedly: to escape anti-Semitism in Argentina and later political persecution as a Communist in the United States. Dorfman himself finally had to flee Pinochet, becoming a third-generation political refugee. Hope is the motivating force behind a great deal of Dorfman's work, and he takes inspiration from it for his belief in the eventual—in his view inevitable—fall of the dictators that persecute people like himself and his family. Hope
first appeared in 1982 in the journal New Society, Vol. 60, and is available in Dorfman's 2002 volume In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two
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