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‘How effective isthe first scene as the opening of the play?’
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'How effective is the first scene as the opening of the play?' Brian Friel named this play, 'Translations.' By definition a translation is 'the process of rendering from one language to another, and the product of this process.' However, something is inferred in a translation, the original text looses some of its subtleties as well as some of the sounds of the words, the phonetics, and the ways in which the words are spelt, the orthographics. Sp not only is the title referring to the change of language, but also the loss of something in the process. Immediately, even before the play has begun, this title hints to the audience or reader of the topic and perhaps themes contained within the text; namely that of language. The opening line of the play belongs to Manus; Brian Friel has 'thrown' his audience into the scene mid-conversation. From Manus's line it appears that...
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