One of the most striking achievements of The Miracle Worker is its ability to take a word we usually associate with divine intervention — miracle — and anchor it firmly within the realm of human effort, stubbornness, emotional struggle, discipline, and psychological growth.
When audiences think about The Miracle Worker, they often focus on Helen Keller’s physical disabilities: blindness and deafness. These are, of course, profound challenges.
Every great story has a moment where everything breaks open — a transformation so profound that the entire narrative pivots around it
Stories about miraculous transformations usually give us saviors who are calm, holy, pure, or divinely chosen
One of the most powerful and surprising achievements of The Miracle Worker is the way it interrogates the idea of “normalcy.”