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"What's 'incorrect' about the place-names we have here?" "Nothing at all. They're just going to be standardized" "When there's ambiguity, they'll be Anglicized" (36). 

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"What's 'incorrect' about the place-names we have here?" "Nothing at all. They're just going to be standardized" "When there's ambiguity, they'll be Anglicized" (36). 

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"Yet in truth she discovered that a race was springing from Trojan blood to overthrow some day these Tyrian towers - a people kings of broad realms and proud in war who would come forth for Lybia's downfall" (91). 

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"Yet in truth she discovered that a race was springing from Trojan blood to overthrow some day these Tyrian towers - a people kings of broad realms and proud in war who would come forth for Lybia's downfall" (91). 

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"Do they speak any English, Roland?" "Don't worry. I'll translate." "I see. (He clears his throat. He speaks as if he were addressing children)" "It might be better if you assume they understand you" (32-33).

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"Do they speak any English, Roland?" "Don't worry. I'll translate." "I see. (He clears his throat. He speaks as if he were addressing children)" "It might be better if you assume they understand you" (32-33).

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"Yolland is pouring a drink. Easy with that stuff - it'll hit you suddenly."

Yolland: "I like it."

(43)

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The half-dozen times I met him I didn't know a word he said to me; but he seemed a right enough sort..." (Friel 76)

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"Whats 'incorrect' about the place names we have here?" (36)

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"Whats 'incorrect' about the place names we have here?" (36)

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"My job is to translate the quaint, archaic tongue you people persist in speaking into the King's good English"(30)

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"My job is to translate the quaint, archaic tongue you people persist in speaking into the King's good English"(30)

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"I was just thinking to myself last night: if you had the choosing between Athene and Artemis and Helen of Troy- all three of them Zeus's girls- imagine three powerful-looking daughters like that all in the one parish of Athens!" (Friel 5). 

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"I was just thinking to myself last night: if you had the choosing between Athene and Artemis and Helen of Troy- all three of them Zeus's girls- imagine three powerful-looking daughters like that all in the one parish of Athens!" (Friel 5). 

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Jimmy is clearly well-versed in Greek mythology. This, along with the fact that he is fluent in Greek, show that he is highly educated, contradictory to the stereotype that the Irish are intellectually inferior to the British.

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"We should all be learning English. That's what my mother says. That's what I say...The sooner we all learn to speak English the better" (24).

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"Beginning this time tomorrow they'll kill every animal in Baile Beag - unless they are told where George is" (80).

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"Beginning this time tomorrow they'll kill every animal in Baile Beag - unless they are told where George is" (80).

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"(He clears his throat. He speaks as if he were addressing children - a shade too loudly and enunciating excessively)"  --> "It might be better to assume they understand you - " (32-33)

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"(He clears his throat. He speaks as if he were addressing children - a shade too loudly and enunciating excessively)"  --> "It might be better to assume they understand you - " (32-33)

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"'My job is to translate the quaint, archaic tongue you people persist in speaking into the King's good English'" (Friel 30).

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"'My job is to translate the quaint, archaic tongue you people persist in speaking into the King's good English'" (Friel 30).

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Language has become vital not only as a method of communication, but it has also become something economical. More jobs have been opened up, more barter has been created, and more opportunity overall has been constructed from language.

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"If that doesn't bear results...leveling of every abode in the following selected areas -" (80).

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"If that doesn't bear results...leveling of every abode in the following selected areas -" (80).

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"I've damned little to defend but he'll not put me out without a fight. And there'll be others who think the same as me" (Friel 83-84)

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“I was trying to explain a few minutes ago how remarkable a few minutes ago how remarkable a community this is. To meet people like yourself and Jimmy Jack who actually converse in Greek and Latin”(50). 

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“I was trying to explain a few minutes ago how remarkable a few minutes ago how remarkable a community this is. To meet people like yourself and Jimmy Jack who actually converse in Greek and Latin”(50). 

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"Commencing twenty-four hours from now we will shoot all livestock in Ballybeg." (P80) "If by then the lieutenant hasn't been found, we will proceed until a complete clearance is made of this entire section." (P81)

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"When my grandfather was boy they did the same thing...and after all the trouble you went to, mapping the place and thinking up new names for it" (Friel 83). 

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"When my grandfather was boy they did the same thing...and after all the trouble you went to, mapping the place and thinking up new names for it" (Friel 83). 

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The destruction of language is a cycle that goes on forever and ever. This destruction of language isn't anything new, as even this change in language will change after time again and again.

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"What's 'incorrect' about the place-names we have here" (Friel 36)

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"My friend, confusion is not an ignoble condition" - Hugh (89).

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"My friend, confusion is not an ignoble condition" - Hugh (89).

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Some of the English look down upon the Irish, such as Captain Lancey (who speaks very slowly which is condescending) because they don't know English. However, Hugh argues that they shouldn't have to feel bad because they don't know English. They are smart people, they just don't know the language.

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"I am a barbarian in this place because I am not understood by anyone" (Friel 85)

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"Indeed - English, I suggested, couldn't really express us. And again to his credit he acquiesced to my logic" (Friel 23).

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"'The old language is a barrier to modern progress.' He said that last month. And he's right. I don't want Greek. I don't want Latin. I want English" (25).

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"'The old language is a barrier to modern progress.' He said that last month. And he's right. I don't want Greek. I don't want Latin. I want English" (25).

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“...and we’re standardizing those names as accurate and as sensitively as we can.// “Something is being eroded”(52-53).

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“...and we’re standardizing those names as accurate and as sensitively as we can.// “Something is being eroded”(52-53).

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“I was trying to explain a few minutes ago how remarkable a few minutes ago how remarkable a community this is. To meet people like yourself and Jimmy Jack who actually converse in Greek and Latin”(50). 

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“I was trying to explain a few minutes ago how remarkable a few minutes ago how remarkable a community this is. To meet people like yourself and Jimmy Jack who actually converse in Greek and Latin”(50). 

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"A - that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language"/"B-we must never cease renewing those images; because once we do, we fossilise"(88).

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"A - that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language"/"B-we must never cease renewing those images; because once we do, we fossilise"(88).

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Maire: "We should all learn to speak English . That's what I say. That's what Dan O'Connell said last month in Ennis. He said the sooner we learn English the better" (Friel 24). 

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Maire: "We should all learn to speak English . That's what I say. That's what Dan O'Connell said last month in Ennis. He said the sooner we learn English the better" (Friel 24). 

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“You’ll find, sir, that certain cultures expend on their vocabularies and syntax acquisitive energies and ostentatious entirely lacking in their material lives. I suppose you could call us a spiritual people”(50). 

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“You’ll find, sir, that certain cultures expend on their vocabularies and syntax acquisitive energies and ostentatious entirely lacking in their material lives. I suppose you could call us a spiritual people”(50). 

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“Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with tomorrows. It is our response to mud cabins and a diet of potatoes; our only method of replying to…inevitabilities”(51)

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“Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with tomorrows. It is our response to mud cabins and a diet of potatoes; our only method of replying to…inevitabilities”(51)

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"I just shouted something stupid - something like, 'You're a bastard, Yolland.' If I'd even said it in English . . . 'cos he kept saying 'Sorry-sorry?' The wrong gesture in the wrong language." (70).

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"We must learn where we live. We must learn to make them our own. We must make them our new home" - Hugh (88). 

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"We must learn where we live. We must learn to make them our own. We must make them our new home" - Hugh (88). 

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At first the characters are reluctant to give up Irish for English, but in the end of the play they decide they have to learn English.

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"Indeed - English, I suggested, couldn't really express us. And again to his credit he acquiesced to my logic" (Friel 23).

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1. Create (or add to) a thematic category column.
2. Add quotes to the thematic category column.
3. Choose three of the quotes and provide your own commentary on their significance.

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Consider this analysis: "...the play is an uncompromising reminder that it is Irish, and not English people, who have the power to decide which language is spoken in Ireland. The very fact that audiences are to imagine the play being enacted in Irish is not just a clever double-take, but a conceit which is savagely satiric of those modern audiences which lack proficiency in their own language. If they laugh at the Englishman’s halting attempts to express himself to the villagers, they are also in effect laughing at themselves" (Kiberd 616).

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"I've dammed little to defend but he'll not put me out without a fight." (83)

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"I've dammed little to defend but he'll not put me out without a fight." (83)

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"That's the height of my Latin. Fit me better if I had even that much English" (8). 

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"That's the height of my Latin. Fit me better if I had even that much English" (8). 

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"it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language ... we must never cease renewing this images; because, once we do, we fossilize" (Friel 88).

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"it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language ... we must never cease renewing this images; because, once we do, we fossilize" (Friel 88).