Translations(Brian Friel)is best read as an elegy for a doomed culture. The only response it elicits is to mourn that culture depicted in the play as forever lost. Do you agree?
Title: Translations(Brian Friel)is best read as an elegy for a doomed culture. The only response it elicits is to mourn that culture depicted in the play as forever lost. Do you agree?
Category: /Literature/European Literature
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Translations(Brian Friel)is best read as an elegy for a doomed culture. The only response it elicits is to mourn that culture depicted in the play as forever lost. Do you agree?
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1643 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Translations although addressing a quite distant past evokes many different and emotional reactions because of the text's relevance to the issues of a much closer past and the situation in Northern Ireland even today. The play takes on a large responsibility by addressing a past which is held so close to people's hearts. The tension that this causes within in play evokes a variety of different responses.
The play makes use of historical landmarks to …showed first 75 words of 1643 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1643 total…of responses are generated because the play works on a very personal level and evokes different types of reactions, depending on what views and prejudices the reader or audience brings with them.
1642 words Bibliography Primary Text *Friel, Brian Translations (London, Faber and Faber:1981) Secondary Texts *Deane, Seamus Ireland's Field Day ( London, Hutchinson, 1985) *Friel, Brian Andrews, John and Barry, Kevin Translations and a Paper Landscape: Between Fiction and History, The Crane Bag, Volume 7 No.2 (1983) pp. 118-124