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Throughout Friel’s play ‘Translations’, the importance of identity is explored and is a major theme of the story. There are two types of identity presented, one being the character’s and their realisation of how important it is to them
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Look again at Act Two, Scene one from 'Owen: What is happening?' to 'Owen: Oland And again they explode' Using an examination of this extract as a starting point, explore the importance of a sense of identity as presented in the play as a whole. Throughout Friel's play 'Translations', the importance of identity is explored and is a major theme of the story. There are two types of identity presented, one being the character's and their realisation of how important it is to them. Linked in with them, is the identity of names and what a name means. This extract begins with Yolland questioning why the English are in Ireland and senses something 'sinister'. It is ironic that Yolland, the English sapper, can see the dangers that are to come, but Owen, who has grown up in Baile Beag and has family still living there just perceives it as 'making a six -...
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