tailieunhanh - Lecture Drama II - Modern drama: Lecture 12 - Dr Irum Zulfiqar

This chapter presents the following content: O’Caesy ‘s Works are a representation of contemporary influences: Nothingness, Hollowness and Purposelessness; Irish Civil war: jingoism; how it affects the society and the individuals; how it crushes the economy and the system; how it disintegrates the family structure; how it demolishes the psychology of the people and how it creates generation gap. | DRAMA II Modern Drama Lecture 12 1 SYNOPSIS O’Casey ‘s Works are a representation of contemporary influences: Nothingness, Hollowness and Purposelessness Irish Civil War: Jingoism How it effects the society and the individuals, How it crushes the economy and the system, How it disintegrates the family structure, how it demolishes the psychology of the people and how it creates generation gap How this influence results in Nothingness, Hollowness and Purposelessness 2 Sean O’Casey was born in 1818 and died in 1964. The play has been written on the background of Irish Civil War, which has been going for centuries. 3 Irish Civil War Juno and the Paycock: Jingois 4 Jingoism flag waving “an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions” 5 Jingoism (Denotation) 6 Jingoism is extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. In practice, it is a country's advocacy of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests. Colloquially, it refers to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others—an extreme type of nationalism. The term originated in Britain, expressing a pugnacious attitude toward Russia in the 1870s, and appeared in the American press by 1893 7 8 WWI – Irish War Main Ireland got independence after the First World War Ireland is divided into Southern and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is now called Ulster. The people of main Ireland are Roman Catholic. The majority of Ulster is Anglican. So there is political and religious problem. (i)Either to unite with main Ireland OR (ii)To unite with England OR (iii)To be total independent was the main problem or enigma. 9 “Juno and the Paycock” War at its background (like O’Casey’s other plays) O’Casey is very much against the war fought under any pretext. He closely observed how war affects the society and the individuals, how war crushes the economy and the system, how war disintegrates the family structure, how . | DRAMA II Modern Drama Lecture 12 1 SYNOPSIS O’Casey ‘s Works are a representation of contemporary influences: Nothingness, Hollowness and Purposelessness Irish Civil War: Jingoism How it effects the society and the individuals, How it crushes the economy and the system, How it disintegrates the family structure, how it demolishes the psychology of the people and how it creates generation gap How this influence results in Nothingness, Hollowness and Purposelessness 2 Sean O’Casey was born in 1818 and died in 1964. The play has been written on the background of Irish Civil War, which has been going for centuries. 3 Irish Civil War Juno and the Paycock: Jingois 4 Jingoism flag waving “an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions” 5 Jingoism (Denotation) 6 Jingoism is extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. In practice, it is a country's advocacy of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what it perceives as its national .