This thesis concluded that persuasion can only be achieved when narrative probability and narrative fidelity are present. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a hilarious, poignant, thought-provoking work by Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. Fisher's narrative paradigm as a framework to answer the research question(s): (1) If Guirgis's ideology and created world in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot are foreign and imagined, how is narrative probability and narrative fidelity achieved? and, (2) How does Guirgis persuade his audience through narrative probability and narrative fidelity? Research found that Guirgis achieves narrative probability and narrative fidelity because his dramatic action is complete, self-contained, purposeful, varied, engages and maintains the interest of the audience, and is probable. This qualitative study focused on Guirgis's narrative, using Walter R. Fisher's narrative analysis, through form identification and a functional analysis, determined how Guirgis accomplishes persuasion.
His play Between Riverside and Crazy won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Stephen Adly Guirgis has created an era-melting play, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, which explores the timeless debate between divine mercy and free will. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s plays include Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Little Flower of East Orange, and The Motherfcker with the Hat.
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