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Discuss Anti-Heroism in the plays of Sean O'Casey In O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy, the playwright attacks the weight of dead heroes which manacled contemporary Ireland to a violent past and self-destructive dream. The space between pretension and failing, rhetoric and reality, abstraction and suffering is carefully exposed as O'Casey departs from the stereotypes of the Irish stage to evolve a fresh realist idiom of tenement drama. His characters indulge in their own detached fantasies - create sanctuaries of inaction around themselves - and O'Casey strips away the fiction to reveal a earthy, vulnerable, often farcical hollowness inside. In doing so, he also strips the dream of Romantic Ireland away from the brutality and oppressed poverty that accompanied the birth of the Irish Free State. This dialectic is part of a larger critique in which the rhetoric of heroism is shown up to be a façade for an inability to act, a form...

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