The events of the play in our hands take place in the sixties of the last century in London, during a period of great social changes. The theme of the play is the cultural and civilizational poverty and great frustration experienced by an entire generation of young people living on social aid.
In “Rescued,” Bond appears to enjoy exhausting our senses by torturing an infant - in a public park - whose mother had left him with his father. What is most horrific is that the alleged father joins his companions in practicing this violence against the infant, to the point of death, without a clear reason. But the critics who defended Bond - and they are few - realized that when he presents a scene like this, he presents it to condemn that political, social, moral and economic vacuum through what T. s. Eliot calls art the “objective equivalent.”
Happiness does not belong to one person and not another. It is not a value that is disputed or bought or sold. Rather, it is a reality that exists in some form, place, and time. Either you strive for it and obtain it, or you are against it, and in this case you must mortal.
A person may spend his life searching for happiness while he does not know that he possesses it. He searches for it far away, while it is near him. He may realize this after it is too late, and his condition says:
And I learned that when knowledge is of no use to a boy
What I lost was with me
Since those who hold psychological theories have given themselves permission to search for happiness, poetry has also given us permission to search for it. Poets are sensing stations of human beings, and they are more capable of understanding the essence and reality of happiness than others.
From here, the study paid attention to the poetic discourse of the most famous poets of Arabic literature during the various eras from pre-Islamic times until the present day, and studied and analyzed the poetic evidence related to happiness in their poems and how they reached and achieved it.
This study remains a prelude and key to broader future studies that include other literary genres such as the story, the novel, the story, and the biography, which enriches social and psychological research and studies that relate to human life and its nature and value. In the case of this study, he says:
I am happy if I exist