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260 William Butler Yeats
Deserted, Paul Ruttledge stands alone in his
crusade, like most iconoclasts. Misunderstood
and persecuted, he finally meets his death at the
hands of the infuriated mob.
"
Where There Is Nothing
"
is of great social
significance, deeply revolutionary in the sense that
it carries the message of the destruction of every
institution State, Property, and Church that
enslaves humanity. For where there is nothing,
there man begins.
A certain critic characterized this play as a
"
statement of revolt against the despotism of
facts." Is there a despotism more compelling and
destructive than that of the facts of property, of
the State and Church? But "Where There Is
Nothing
"
is not merely a
"
statement
"
of revolt.
It embodies the spirit of revolt itself, of that most
constructive revolt which begins with the destruc
tion of every obstacle in the path of the new life
that is to grow on the debris of the old, when the
paralyzing yoke of institutionalism shall have been
broken, and man left free to enjoy Life and
Laughter.
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