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There are some dramatic devices and techniques that Friel uses to illuminate the play’s central themes. These could be the structure of the play, language and translation, and the ending.  

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What are the dramatic devices Friel uses to illuminate the play's central themes? (Consider names and naming, language and translation, map-making etc). There are some dramatic devices and techniques that Friel uses to illuminate the play's central themes. These could be the structure of the play, language and translation, and the ending. The structure of the play allows it to explore the theme of cross-cultural conflict and communication. The play could be about whether two communities can be together without conflict resulting in a change to the original community. In this play a change happens to the Irish community and they feel their traditions and ways of life have gone and at the end it look as if the whole way of life for Irish community is coming to an end. This happens as the result of the English becoming involved with the Irish. At first the audience is introduced...

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