Topic: Why Amalia Give Her Baby Up

The Darker Face of Earth is a Rita Dove's play that has intense drama and gives energy through psychological action which is based on Greek Myth Oedipus and on African-American slavery presenting a typical situation of 1820's. Dove created a character Amalia who is a white girl, had sex with the black slave and wife of a plantation owner Louis Lafarge. Dove play revolves around a variety of characters. Amalia was the controller of all the other women. The drama takes a turn when a child born who was from the black slave.

Amalia was ...