Sciascia's Moro embodies the same qualities as many of Sciascia's other protagonists, such as a radical. The author contends that Leonardo Sciascia's L’affaire Moro is not a work of non-fiction, as Sciascia proposed, but of historical fiction, and that Sciascia's Moro is a literary character, more a spokesperson for Sciascia's political views than a reflection of the historical figure. Herewith, this study aims to discuss the gender bias and women's suffering in the play, East Lynne, as aptly depicted through the qualities of melodrama and domestic melodrama. In the same way, her husband's second wife, Barbara suffers in silence due to Archibald's strict rules while Archibald's sister, Cornelia forces Isabel and Barbara to conform to the ideal woman image in terms of patriarchal values.
In this respect, the suffering in the play is gendered for it is only Isabel, who dies in pain, shame and remorse after her faulty actions as a fallen woman whereas the men around her move on with their lives. As a married woman leaving her husband, Archibald and two children behind and running away with another man due to a tragic misunderstanding, she is stigmatised by the patriarchal values of the Victorian society. Through the adjustment of the story to drama performance, the play, East Lynne embodies the characteristics of melodrama and specifically, domestic melodrama, both of which expose the tragedies embedded within everyday life with the latter focusing on the domestic matters and women's condition in troublesome incidents.Significantly, the play reflects the woman problem of the time quite influentially through the depiction of Lady Isabel Vane's helplessness and suffering. Following the spectacular success of the famous sensation novel, East Lynne (1861) written by Mrs Henry Wood, there have been numerous adaptations to the stage to attract a vast number of spectators to theatres.
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