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Dancing at Lughnasa
Brian Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa confirms the limited opportunities available to Irish women during the first...
Dancing at Lughnasa uses one group of sisters from a single family to represent the different possibilities available to rural Irishwomen a century ago. Brian Friel shows the limitations that women...
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What is Gerry Evans' role in Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel?
Gerry Evans is Michael's father and the off-and-on lover of Michael's mother, Chris Mundy. Dabbling unsuccessfully in various occupations (he's a gramophone salesman with aspirations of fighting in...
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What atmosphere is created by the opening tableaux and monologue in Dancing at Lughnasa?
The atmosphere is one of nostalgia and tragedy. Although the play opens with a seemingly heart-warming family scene, Michael quickly explains in the opening monologue that within a year, Uncle Jack...
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In Brian Friel's play Dancing at Lughnasa, what are the most important points to remember about Jack's experience...
In Brian Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa, Jack is an Irish priest who has served for many years as a missionary in Africa, working at a leper colony in Uganda. The most important thing to remember...
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Discuss the relationship between individual and collective memory in Dancing at Lughnasa.
Brian Friel examines both collective memory and individual memory in his play Dancing at Lughnasa. Friel explores the uses of, and the differing relations to, memory in many different ways...
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To what extent do you feel Rose is isolated from the rest of the family in Dancing at Lughnasa?
A part of Rose's isolation from the family is her mental condition. She perceives life differently and this creates a fundamental barrier between herself that the rest of the family. Her "simple"...
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“Their lives are of secret longings and shattered dreams.” Discuss this statement in reference to only two of the...
The Mundy sisters are key characters in Dancing At Lughnasa. The five Mundy sisters, Christina, Rosie, Kate, Agnes, and Maggie, all live in a cottage near Ballybeg, in Donegal County. The play is...
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In Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, how is the relationship between memory and history depicted? What are examples of...
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel is a memory play. We can see this in how the play is structured. The play is framed by Michael, as an adult, reflecting on his childhood. The play begins with an...
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In what ways does Brian Friel turn his focus in Dancing at Lughnasa away from language towards “expressions that are...
Located in a small Irish town in the 1930s, Dancing at Lughnasa conveys one man’s memories of what happened as the rural, Catholic region gained awareness of the world at large. Speaking from the...
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Why was Christianity so roundly criticised in the Enlightenment ?
During the Enlightenment, Monarchs across Western Europe espoused that they were obeying direct orders from God. The so-called divine right of kings justified the king's absolute authority in all...