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How Have Other Peoples Readings Of "Translations" Helped You To Understand The Contexts Of The Play In Scene 1?
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Dave King 12NI How Have Other Peoples Readings Of "Translations" Helped You To Understand The Contexts Of The Play In Scene 1? The first act of Friel's play "Translations" features many different contexts ranging from the infamous potato famine to hinting at the possible forming of the present day IRA (the Donnelly twins,) and politics. One of the major contexts that also coincide with the title of the play is translation. The translation of Irish name into English name. I only realised this by reading a Canadian writers essay on language and its importance in "Translations". Especially in relation to Owen and his take on the Irish language. Where as many Irish people, at the time, saw the English to be taking away Irelands identity by colonizing it and changing names, language etc. Owen seems to be naïve and miss this. By changing place names they are not only taking away identity...
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