Change in the Play Translations
Introduction
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From the statement above I am going to consider the way in which Friel
introduces changes that occur in Act1.
The First change that we come across in the play is the change of
education, changing from a Hedge school into national schools. " Did
you apply for that job in the new national school?" Hedge schools were
underground throughout the eighteenth century. Their name came from
the fact that, that literally was where most of the classes took place
at that time. The School Master (Hugh), with 35 years of experience
behind him, is dogmatic, peremptory, and short with his pupils, and
hoping to "trade up" when a new regional school gets built, though he
takes a dim view of emphasizing English.
"Did you apply for that job in the new national school?" This quote
indicates that Marie realises that there is a change that is going to
take place and that times are changing so you just have to accept it.
By saying this quote
"When it opens, this is finished, nobodies going to pay to go to a
hedge school" Marie also shows that the value of a hedge school is
nothing as time progresses things modify and you have to accept that,
this indicates that Marie is a self-assured, forward thinking
character.
A further sort of change is that Friel's drama describes the arrival
of English soldiers to a remote section of Ireland as they attempt to
create the first accurate map of the area. Making the map, however,
means renaming places and eroding tradition, in addition to preparing
the area for military occupation. The two characters Captain Lancey
and Lieutenant Yolland ...
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play has become concerned with the problems of language, so much so
that they constitute not just a theatre of language but also a theatre
about language. The ordinance Survey, contemporarily described as
associating geography with "the history", the statistics, and the
structure physical and social of the countries. Fiel dramatises the
alienating effect on Gaelic speaking people of the Gaelic place names
being translated into English, or anglicised, by the Ordnance Survey.
In fact his was only superficially alienating experience because the
Gaelic names, at least for the places in their own direct localities.
Something much more alienating happens when the spoken language
changes into English, for the characters a whole network of local
place names dissolves in a collective amnesia.
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How Friel Involves his Audience in the Conflict Between Coloniser and Colonised in his Play Translations
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