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Turn to Act two, scene two and remind yourself of the whole scene. This is a very unusual love scene. How effective do you find it and how does it relate to the main concerns of the play as a whole?
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Turn to Act two, scene two and remind yourself of the whole scene. This is a very unusual love scene. How effective do you find it and how does it relate to the main concerns of the play as a whole? In act two, scene two Friel has created a very unusual love scene between Maire and Yolland who have just escaped a dance hand in hand. Soon enough language comes between them and they struggle to understand each other. However the litany of place names, which has no essential or specific meaning, touches the heart of Maire and it somehow mysteriously brings them together. This, only for the audience to discover when they speak in their respective languages, their desire for one another is on entirely different basis. Yolland wishes to stay with Maire in Baile Beag a place where he feels he can live, on the other hand Maire...
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