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What do you think is the significance of these three 'minor' characters in the play: Sarah, Jimmy and Doalty?
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Translations What do you think is the significance of these three 'minor' characters in the play: Sarah, Jimmy and Doalty? Doalty, Sarah and Jimmy Jack Cassie have three main roles in Translations. Firstly, they represent those Irish people who will be left behind during the development of the country by the English. Secondly, they all contribute to the concluding scene and its outcome. And thirdly, they all in some way represent Ireland as a whole. Unlike Maire and Owen, none of these three characters has any desire to leave Baile Beag. When Jimmy Jack sets out on a spring morning in 1798 with Hugh to join the rebellion he, like Hugh, soon feels homesick and returns eagerly to where he feels he belongs "And it was there in Phelan's pub" reminisces Hugh "that we got homesick for Athens, just like Ulysses. "The desiderium nostrorum - the need for our own". Jimmy Jack, the peasant...
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