W7: Subversion and the Stage Flashcards

Question

Play about parricide appears....

Answer 1

just after Freud defined the Oedipus complex in his Interpretation of Dreams, 1899

Answer 2

in Playboy "Christy Mahon is made a mighty man by the power of a lie"

Answer 3

'Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World' ; in losing illusion of greatness, she loses the Playboy whom she has, in part, created.

Answer 4

1. Christ objectified 0 his feet fetishised and feminized | 2. Women catch him preening himself in a mirror and giggle, for 'them that kills their father is a vain lot surely'

Answer 5

1. through diary-writing females | 2. when rejected by a girl he professes to adore, he doesn't weep or beat his breast but Algy eats muffins

Answer 6

'How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble... You seem to be perfectly heartless

Answer 7

1. leaves Pegeen and pub available to CHristy 2. pious language loaded w ironies 3. Roman Catholic speicifically; Synge turns RC into real Pagans

Answer 8

1. calls upon 'St Joseph and St Patrick and St Brigid and St James' 2. When he asks 'Father Reilly, and the saints of god, where will I hide myself today?'

Answer 9

'Michael James, leave me go, you old Pagan, leave me go, or I'll get the curse of the priests on you, and of the scarlet-coated bishops of the Courts of Rome' (himself pagan)

Answer 10

'aren't you a lousy schemer to go burying your poor father unbenknownst when you'd a right to throw him on the crupper of a Kerry mule and drive him westwards, like holy Joseph in the days gone by, the way we would have given him a decent burial, and not have him rotting beyond, and not a Christian drinking a smart drop of glory to his soul?

Answer 11

a drunken half parody of the traditional blessing

Answer 12

'Divorces are made in Heaven'

Answer 13

called it an 'extravagant crusade against Anglo-Saxon stupidity'

Answer 14

1. Charity - Chasuble speaks of the 'Society for the Prevention of Discontent among the Upper Orders' 2. Algernon's complaint that the lower-class orders fail to set the aristocratic classes a good example, as he assigns the lower orders the 'moral responsibility' of his class

Answer 15

conventional genre of the 'well-made play' while simultaneously mocking its convention: - gives us the 'woman with a past' in form of innocent Miss Prism - keeps Jack's guilty secret dramatically present through the figure of Algernon

Answer 16

'everyone is good until they learn how to talk' | (Synge = to talk is to tell 'lies and blather)

Answer 17

insofar as words are untrustworthy in a colony where the locals are forced to adopt the language of the oppressor, mirroring the masters.

Answer 18

as Declan Kiberd argues in 'Inventing Ireland', 'lying to government officials became a moral action'

Answer 19

as argued by Raja Rao in Kanthapura; 'one has to convey in a language that is not one's own the spirit that is one's own'

Answer 20

patronised by an English dean due to his use of a local dialect word, his soul 'frets in the shadow of language' ; 'the language in which we are pspeaking is his before it is mine'

Answer 21

employing wit and irony as counter-speech, 'turn[ing] the double-speak of the Empire back on itself' (Stephen Raby)

Answer 22

joke in subtitle about 'serious people' in a play where to be 'earnest' is to fake

Answer 23

Freudian | Touch of hamlet; ghost of father

Answer 24

Oedipal complex the woman he was supposed to marry suckled / nursed him Ireland and womanhood; gender slippage

Answer 25

talks about modernism as the work of exiles and emigrés

Answer 26

'More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read'

Answer 27

could mean: 1. what was important in contemporary literature was censored by society 2. what society hailed as culture was not worth reading

Answer 28

we enjoy puns because our neuronal connections are provoked by the dual input that comes with accumulated information from two arbitrarily connected things

Answer 29

a 'rich and living language' with 'rich and copious words'

Answer 30

'at the same time to give the reality, which is the root of all poetry, in a comprehensive and natural form'

Answer 31

Wilde devised a clever strategy for challenging English prejudices about the Irish'

Answer 32

Wilde imitated Englishness 'as a subtle form of insult'

Answer 33

victorian critic, writes 'a paradox is a truth seen round a corner'

Answer 34

he 'criticised his audience while he entertained it'

Answer 35

'The Playboy's real name was Synge, and the famous libel on Ireland [...] was really the truth about the world'

Answer 36

'turn[ing] the double-speak of the Empire back on itself' through metaphysical juxtapositions

Answer 37

'all the dramatic personae, from the heroes down to their butlers, talk pure and undiluted Wildese'

Answer 38

'I'll maybe tell them, and I'll maybe not'

Answer 39

'as fully flavoured as a nut or apple'

Answer 40

'would [have been] very tedious... and [their] literature a complete impossibility'

Answer 41

in Devolving English Literature argued that high modernism in Britain wasn't created by metropolitan English people but by exiled barbarians from Ireland and America; linguistic estrangement)

Answer 42

but Christy's self-perceived identity is moulded to an idealised state from without

Answer 43

amusing as the surface is, the comic energy springs from the realities that are mocked’.

Answer 44

notes that Pegeen has 'helped transform' Christy, but argues that she 'brutally tortures' him later in the play

Answer 45

Gwendolyn's power of linguistic mastery, as her and Cecily 'rebel against sexual roles by mastering the language and being witty-qualities often ssociated with men'

Answer 46

'language is the parent and not the child of thought'

Answer 47

'for the last three months' despite having never previously met him