In The Shadow of the Glen Essay

In the rear end of the Glen was written by J M Synge in 1914. Even before it was sh cause to both luggage compartment it caused arguments within the Irish alliance because some people notion the p rig was shocking and unpatriotic and was an insult against Irish womanhood. The main channel of the play was to celebrate Irish culture and Irish writers but it seemed to turn against Synge.In the shadow of the Glen energise four main characters in it. Nora Burke is the altogether female in the play and is very seductive and flirtatious. He is the wife of Dan Burke who was a farmer and a shepherd. There is Michael Dara whom has a small use in the play yet has an important role. He comes across to the audience as young and naive. And the bear is the drop that represents the audience and knows of Dans plot and also knows of secondary characters like Darcy. He is shown as a good character that wants to help people.Nora is a character that has a relationship with every sensation. Sh e has a relationship with her husband, a relationship with the barf whom she invites in her house and negotiation to through protrude the play and she has a relationship with Michael Dara, a young shepherd whom she wants to marry. She also has relationships with the secondary characters such as Darcy a man that was in her smell and had made her happy when she was lonely. She has a relationship with Mary Brien and Peggy Cavanagh, whom she refers to near the end of the play and they probably fagged their childhood together.In the beginning Nora is presented as a lonely character whose husband has just died. She is eye aged and has had a bad marriage with her husband. She has had an affair with a man called Darcy and never loved Dan. What authority would I live, and I an old woman, if I didnt marry a man with a pussy of a farm, and cows on it, and sheep on the rear end hills? in this quote you can see that she only got married to Dan for land and security.In the play when the s cene is set, Nora is moving just about the kitchen lighting candles on the slacken which sets a romantic mood for when Michael comes when a knock is heard on the door. It makes her jump and she looks at the groundless body of her husband uneasily. She then opens the door. This opening scene pulls you into the story, as you want to know why she has candles on the table and why she looks at the body uneasily and why there is a suddenly body in the kitchen. You want to find out the answers to your interrogative sentences. In this part of the play Nora comes across to the audience as suspicious as she is continually looking at the body with troubled looks.Nora invites the tramp that is knocking at the door into her house and gives him whisky and tobacco. She comes across as being flirtatious towards the tramp and as if she is severe to get something from him.The tramp sees the body and comments on Dans queer look, which Nora then jokes somewhat He was evermore queer, stranger, and I suppose them thats queer and they living men will be queer bodies by and by. She isnt sad virtually his final branch and treats it as a joke. This unsettles the audience and the tramp. In this situation Nora should be sad and maybe tea leafrful. She would not lease let the tramp in, or if she did then she wouldnt grow spoken to him much, and just given him what he asked for. Nora then tells the tramp that she cant move or touch the body as he has put a black curse on her. This also comes across as suspicious and raises questions in the audiences minds.It comes across that they have been having problems for he lay a black curse on me this morning if Id touch his body the meter hed die sudden, or let whatsoeverone touch it except his sister only one question in the audiences mind at this point would be why would he only let his sister touch him and not his own wife? This fits in with why Nora is not very sad about Dans death. Nora then supports this idea by commenting on Dan being shivery towards her and that he was a horrible person that complained with this quote, Maybe cold would be no sign of death with the like of him, for he was always cold, every day since I knew him and every nightIt seems to the audience and the tramp that she is sad that they were never loving towards each other and it raises another(prenominal) question in the audiences mind that maybe she was regretting it. She then lightens the mood and offers the tramp the whisky and Dans pipe. The tramp and Nora get public lecture and Nora tells the tramp that she is sacred of being totally, Im thinking many would be afeard, but I never knew what way Id be afeard of beggar or bishop or of any man of you at all Its other things than the like of you, stranger as if you were easily afeard. The question then in the audiences mind is does she want something? or is she indicating something?The tramp then duologue about Darcy, and Nora, who we know later has an affair with Darcy, is interested in what the tramp has to say about him, and enquires about him. The tramp then describes when and where he met Darcy and how he got to know him. When he tramp talks about Darcys death Nora shows some sad emotion and speaks sorrowfully. This shows she is sadder about Darcys death then her own husbands. She looks at the bed and speaks more quietly to the tramp about after Darcy died she got happy again. This indicates she is having another affair and that she cannot talk about Darcy around Dan, even if he is dead. This portrays Nora as being an unfaithful wife to Dan as she was having an affair with Darcy whilst he was alive and having one in his last few days or months.She changes the subject and asks if there was anyone else on the road. When the tramp tells her a young man was running after his sheep Nora gives a half smile and is intrigued. She asks about how far he was as if she wanted to meet him. She fills a tympanum and puts it in fire to make some tea as if she is expecting someone. We know she is not making tea for the tramp as he has his whisky. So this heightens she is expecting someone. She asks the tramp to stay with Dan. We now know this was why she was dally with him and giving him their best whisky and cigars. In line 42 Nora speaks in constraint as if she was property back some enthusiasm to meet the young man but the tramp is uneased and wants to go himself. He doesnt want to be left alone with the dead body. He continually looks at the dead body after Nora has gone and when she goes he tries to occupy his mind with sewing.After Dan jumps up we know that Dan is trying to trick Nora and that he is very bitter about Noras affair with Darcy. We know this as in line 57, the stage instructions tell us that Dan should bitterly say Darcys name. In the stage directions it is said you hear a long whistle from outside. This is Nora attracting the young mans attention. Dab hears this and speaks ferociously in an ashamed way about his wife . He then takes a stick and then goes back to being dead. In this scene where Dan is alive the audience sympathise with Dan, as Nora is not sad about his death and very excited about meeting Michael.When Nora enters the house with Michael, Nora asks about Dan and if he made any sign of being alive. This may be because she suspects Dan of not being dead or just because she is being polite. The tramp lies, as he wants to see what will happen next. Nora then tries to get the tramp to quit the two alone and flirts with him a small by inviting him to use the bed, which could indicate something, will you go into the little room and stretch yourself a short while on the bed. But the tramp pretends to go to sleep nearby so he can hear. Michael is jealous of this and challenges the tramp a little.Once the tramp is asleep, Nora teases Michael and asks him why she should marry him. She is playing hard to get and in line 88 when she says, Its a hard woman I am to please this day, Michael Dara , and its no lie I am notification you. She tells him about not wanting to be alone and that she wants to be secure and safe. During this time Michael is counting out money. This can be for two reasons one to get more money or two to have an excuse for marrying Dan. This may be because she feels ashamed of herself and tries to find an excuse to make herself feel better. She aimlessly talks about money and not wanting to end up like a tramp roaming around streets and Michael is trying to console her. She is tempting him with whisky when Dan wakes up. Michael puts arm around her as if he is trying to prove himself when Dan sneezes.Michael is then very scared and begs for forgiveness. When Dan wants to throw Nora out he can only offer a refuge but not at his house. At this Nora is very scared a she would be alone and starts to flirt with Dan. This could be because she thinks if she flirts with him and shows him that she loves him the he would let her stay with him. But when this doesn t work she curses him. This shows that she is using him and that she doesnt love him. At the end the tramp to help Nora and they walk out.Nora does not enjoy the idea of not living in a house with no roof over her head as she explains to the tramp, Im thinking its myself will be wheezing that time with lying down beneath the Heavens when the night is cold, and that she does not appreciate the tramps description of the magic of a gilded morning when she describes to the tramp What good is a grand morning when Im destroyed surely, and I going out to get my death walking on the roads. Nora obviously found her punishment inequitable as she thought Dan was dead. She did not to be lonely and financially unstable so she acted on this thought alone.I think the writer presented her character well as it was a hard role to write. She had a lot of emotions, which were hard to display, but the point was clear.