How Friel Involves his Audience in the Conflict Between Coloniser and Colonised in his Play Translations The play 'translations' by Brian Friel is set in Ireland in 1833. During this time, the area was undergoing colonisation by the English and the play represents a microcosm of the events occurring all over the nation at the time. The consequence of this colonisation was inevitably that the Gaelic language native to Ireland was eventually lost and replaced by English. Friel develops a
.. ...burse and use money-probably because he was a multimillionaire. Because of the biases inherent to the discussion of wealth, one must consider all of society's sentiments in order to obtain a comprehensive basis from which meaningful discourse can spring. Resources such as The Great Gatsby and Theory of the Leisure Class allow that ideal basis to become ever more tangible. Works Cited and Consulted: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Simon and Schuster Inc., New York:
Fellini: Music and Meaning in Black and White. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2009. Print. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Ser. in Italian Studies. Wilinsky, Barbara. "'A Thinly Disguised Art Veneer Covering a Filthy Sex Picture': Discourses on Art Houses in the 1950s." Indiana University Press 8.2 (1996): 143-58. Print.
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Wolfers, and Morgenthau, became paramount to the concept’s realization. For brevity’s sake, thinkers spent a vast amount of time pondering the theory’s many forms insofar as they produced a semi-coherent discourse upon which its modern form operates. The establishment of the discipline’s discourse did not firmly cement its foundational concepts. As such, various forms, such as the balance between great powers and super power, appeared and further fractured its theoretical base. Jack S. Levy (2004)