The Playboy Of The Western World

Question 1

Stage directions describe shebeen as

Answer 1

“ very rough and untidy”

Question 2

Shawn is scared a father Riley

Answer 2

“I’m afeared of father Reilly“

Question 3

Marriage is an important institution

Answer 3

“Aren’t we after making a good bargain”

Question 4

Pegeen calls her dad by his full name

Answer 4

“Have you no shame, Michael James”

Question 5

We see Peggy in as a strong woman

Answer 5

“You a fine, hardy girl would knock the head off anyoff any two men in the place“

Question 6

Shawn Keogh appears to be wealthier than other characters leading him to be in a position to bribe Christie with fine clothes and a ticket to America
Clothes are a sign of wealth

Answer 6

“My new coat is woven from the blackest shearings for 3 miles around”

Question 7

America is the land of opportunity with many prosperities

Answer 7

“You’ll have golden chains and shiny coats and you riding upon hunters with the ladies of the land“

Question 8

The Irish peasant class are unglamorous
The ram was so important to widow Quinn

Answer 8

“Doesn’t the world to know you reared a ram at your own breast”

Question 9

Christy happily assumes the position of pot-boy. He carried out menial tasks. His aspirations rise no higher than this
he is easily satisfied

Answer 9

“Well, it’s a clean bed and soft with it, and it’s great luck and company I’ve won me in the end of time“

Question 10

Christy offered a job of the pot boy

Answer 10

“That be a lad with a sense of Solomon to have for a pot boy”

Question 11

In his old parish Christy was known as a lazy man

In this new parish he’s treated differently and given new opportunities

Answer 11

“A man you to see stretched the half of the day on the brown ferns with his belly to the sun”

Question 12

Michael James chose who pegeen would marry just as many father still at the time
He chose Shawn Keogh

Answer 12

“That shy and decent Christian I have chosen for my daughters hand”

Question 13

Where is the fathers are feared

Everybody admires Christy for having the courage and bravery to murder his dad

Answer 13

“A man did split his father’s middle with a single clout should have the bravery of ten”

Question 14

Christy describes his dad as

Answer 14

“A man’d be raging all times“ and who “never gave peace to any”

Question 15

Christy successfully challenges his father’s authority . He finally shows his dad his strength. his dad cannot believe

Answer 15

“I never till this day confused that dribbling idiot with a likely man”

Question 16

Christy declares himself this but the old Mahon is delighted because his son is finally showing bravery
Hopeful ending for Christy

Answer 16

“Master of all flights from now on”

Question 17

They have a superficial faith. They don’t really care about religion because it’s something that’s been in their lives for so long. Sara says

Answer 17

Nothing to confess at all

Question 18

Religion is the source of morality for many characters. It is a moral guide

Answer 18

“If I wasn’t so God-fearing I’d near have the courage to come behind him and run a pike into his side“

Question 19

Michael James and his friends are much more on ambivalent about his religion. He uses the local wake to get drunk on free alcohol

Answer 19

“they’ll have the best stuff drunk at the wake”

Question 20

Religion is referred to in a positive way

Answer 20

“The light of seven heavens in your heart alone“

Question 21

Dowry’s were given at the time

Answer 21

“A drift of heifers I’m giving“

Question 22

When Michael agrees to let Pegeen and Christy marry. the reason behind this is he doesn’t want to see…

Answer 22

“A score of grandson’s growing up little gallant swearers by the name of God”

Question 23

Their hopes of relationship end tragically when Christy leaves.Shawn is excited he can finally wed pegeen. He is still not what Pegeen wants we are unsure if they’ll we’d

Answer 23

“It’s a miracle Father Reilly can wed us in the end of all”

Question 24

Widow Quinn killed her husband. We have sympathy for her. Shawn Keogh had previously counted it is a virtue that he…

Answer 24

“Wouldn’t raise a hand upon“ a woman

Question 25

Even though eidow quinns current situation maybe better she is lonely. She hasn’t had the opportunity for a relationship since and sees a potential husband and Christy .She tells him that she too is lonely like he was in his old parish

Answer 25

“And all the times again looking out on the schooner, hookers, trawlers is sailing the sea and I thinking on the gallant hairy fellows are drifting beyond, and myself long years living alone”

Question 26

Michael sees the use of violence as a necessary part of being a man and appoints Christy as pot boy as he is brave because he killed his dad. Men sense they have a responsibility for pegeen because she’s a woman

Answer 26

“If I’d that lad in the house, I wouldn’t be fearing the loosed khaki cut-throats or the walking dead”

Question 27

Surprisingly later in the play PegeEN disobeys her father‘s wishes and demands to marry Christy and convinces him out of marrying Shawn

Answer 27

“Bless us now for I swear to God I’ll wed him, and I’ll not renege”

Question 28

Peggy finds power in attacking the weakest male character of shawn keogh. She is violent towards Christy. Although Pegeen‘s relationship with Christy brings out her softer and more feminine side. She is insanely attracted to his eloquence and bravery. Christy softened her

Answer 28

“Any girl would walk her heart out before she’d meet a young man was your like eloquence, or talk at all“

Question 29

Society is largely am concerned with the rule of the law. There is no loyalty among the characters towards the law. Peggy and tells the story of a local who…

Answer 29

“Knocked the eye from a peeler“

Question 30

We pity widow quinn as she describes herself

Answer 30

“A widow woman, like of me, has buried children and destroyed her man“

Question 31

When Christy leaves he has hopes for his new life where he will be more confident in relationships

Answer 31

“Romancing through a romping lifetime“

Question 32

Christy’s education

Answer 32

“Slow at learning, a middling scholar only “

“And he a dunce never reached his second book“

Question 33

Despite Christy’s lack of education Pegeen is attracted to his articulate and well read words

Answer 33

“It’s the poets are your like – –fine, fiery fellows with great rage when their tempers roused”

Question 34

Christy himself is inspired by Pegeen and begins to feel that he has talent

Answer 34

“If I am an idiot, I’m after hearing my voice this day saying words that would raise the top-knot on a poet in a merchant’s town”

Question 35

In the opening scene ominous atmosphere is created
There is a fear of going outside and the sense of foreboding
There is a man screaming inside in the ditch

Answer 35

“Groaning wicked like a maddening dog“

Question 36

Sean is the only character with hope. He is waiting on

Answer 36

“Father Reilly’s dispensation from the bishops of Rome“

Question 37

our first thoughts on Christy are that he is vulnerable and desperate. He arrives in the flaharty pub in County Mayo

Answer 37

“Very tired and frightened and dirty”

Question 38

The scene ends on an extremely helpful note for Christy as he reflects on the way his life is turned upside down and is change for the good

Answer 38

Well, it’s a clean bed and soft with it, and it’s great luck and company I’ve won me in the end of time – to fine women fighting for the likes of me – till I’m thinking this is night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by

Question 39

Pegeen tells Christy she’s ready to marry him

Answer 39

“gowns bought ready the way I can wed do you, and not wait at all “

Question 40

Peggy and is hopes are crushed when Christie reveals his true self

Answer 40

“I’ll say, a strange man is a marvel, with his mighty talk but what’s the squabble in your backyard and the blow of a loy have taught me that there is a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed “

Question 41

Mahon comes to rescue

Answer 41

“My son and myself will be going our own way, and we’ll have great times from this out telling stories of the villainy of Mayo, and the fools here”

Question 42

Christy is glad to leave his hometown

Answer 42

“Bloody lists in the naked parish where [he] grew a man “

Question 43

Christ had told the story of the “…” his father had wanted him to marry

Answer 43

“Walking terror”