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O’Casey depicts people as victims of their environment. Show how thet social and political unrest in Ireland in the early 1920’s affects the characters in Juno and the Paycock. In your answer you should examine at least three characters in deta
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Q1 O'Casey depicts people as victims of their environment. Show how thet social and political unrest in Ireland in the early 1920's affects the characters in Juno and the Paycock. In your answer you should examine at least three characters in detail. ????????????????????????????????????????? The play, "Juno and the Paycock" is set in working class Dublin during the 1920's. The family, around whom the play is set; the Boyle family, live in very poor working class conditions. Their home is a two-room tenement and this has to be shared by four adults, Juno, Boyle, Mary and Johnny. The furnishings are very poor "Cretonne hangings strung on twine" and the family used a "galvanised bath". When they believe, in the second act, that they are about to come into some money, they buy things like an "upholstered armchair", such luxuries being absent from their life. The political situation in Ireland at that time was...
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