You should have had great people in your family, im thinking, with the little, small feet you have, and you with a kind of quality name, the like of what youd find on the great powers and potentates of france and spain...And you a fine, handsome young fellow with a noble brow...Its the poets are your likefine, fiery fellows with great rages when their tempers aroused.Name the play and author of the above extract?Why people make fun of pegeen mike?Name one of the major themes of the play?
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Synge penned this preface to The Playboy of the Western World for the 1909 publication of his Collected Works. This preface is an updated and expanded version of the note Synge attached to the program for the ill-received performances at the Abbey a year earlier. Where the program note served as a defensive justification for his work, this published preface is more profound in delivering his theory of writing.
In the preface, Synge refers to the poetry and “full flavour” of Ireland's native language and dialects. He suggests that city folk, like those in Dublin, have “shut their lips” to their heritage, while urban artists refuse to represent this poetry. What Synge wishes to capture is the “fiery, magnificent and tender” poetry, both in terms of their realistic language and the joy of their lives. Ultimately, this statement delivers Synge's unique approach to storytelling, in which he uses the native Irish language to explore his own voice.
You should have had great people in your family, I’m thinking, with the little, small feet you have, and you with a kind of quality name, the like of what you’d find on the great powers and potentates of France and Spain...and you a fine, handsome young fellow with a noble brow...it’s the poets are your like—fine, fiery fellows with great rages when their temper’s aroused.
Pegeen Mike, Act I, pp. 124-125
Pegeen Mike, alone with Christy for the first time, reveals here the vast distance between her vision of Christy and the truth about the man. Christy Mahon comes from Irish peasant stock. He was the laughingstock of his village, where women went out of their way to belittle him. He is dirty and unlearned, having done poorly at school. Before the attempted patricide, he lived a life of cringing submission to his father. However, this reality stands in stark contrast to the tale he tells, of an act so unnatural, so divorced from the stifling constraints of traditional morality, that it sets Pegeen’s imagination alight. Though she is observant enough to recognize what he truly is, s