The scene changes as the audience is brought in to Gar’s flashback with Katie Doogan, which happened months before the current events. The scene begins with Gar telling Kate that he can’t wait any longer and that he’s ‘mad’ about her. Kate, being realistic about the situation asks Gar how they could expect to live Read More …
We first meet Gar O’Donnell as he is finishing his day’s work in the shop owned by his father, S.B. O’Donnell, who is also a local county councillor. The play is set in Donegal in a town name Ballybeg. (Baile Beag, which literally means small town) Gar is singing happily, ‘Philadelphia Here I Come,’ as Read More …
Episode I—Introduction to Gar, Madge and S.B. Episode I—The Flashback with Katie Doogan Episode I–Dinner with S.B. and Meeting Master Boyle Episode II–The Flashback with Aunt Lizzy and Uncle Con Episode II– Saying Goodbye to ‘The Boys.’ Episode II– Kate Doogan comes to visit Episiode III–The memory of fishing with S.B. Episode III–S.B. plays draughts Read More …
2021 Ordinary Level English Sample Answer.
Literary Genre refers to the style in which your text is written or presented on stage or film. It is an analysis of how the author put the story together to present the reader/audience with a compelling story. Literary Genre examines that ways in which telling a story can differ across the various genres, like Read More …
For Leaving Cert English, you will be asked to study three texts as part of your comparative course, under different modes of comparison. Generally, you will study a novel, a play and a film. Your job is to compare the differences and similarities in all three texts under a certain mode, for example, Cultural Context, Read More …
The next scene follows Lear as he wanders around the heath challenging the weather to take him on. He asks the weather to do its worst as he thinks about the cruelty of his two daughters. ‘Blow, wind and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!’ The fool begs Lear to go back and talk to his Read More …
On the heath, a storm is raging, as Kent goes off in search of Lear who is missing in the storm, since he left his daughters. A knight informs Kent that Lear is somewhere in the area, along with his fool. Kent tells the knight that there is bad blood festering between Cornwall and Albany Read More …
Lear along with his fool arrive at Gloucester’s castle , where he sees Kent in the stocks and is outraged that his daughter and son-in-law would treat one of his servants in this manner, clearly an insult to Lear himself. ‘Tis worse than murder, to do upon respect such violent outrage.’ Lear demands to speak Read More …
With Kent asleep in the stocks, Edgar enters, still on the run from his father’s manhunt. In order to stay alive, he must cast off his fine clothes and lose his clean look, instead, “My face I’ll grime with filth, blanket my loins, elf all my hair with knots…” Edgar is going to pretend to Read More …