Sive by John B. Keane
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A hero from Small Things Like These
Name one of the texts on your comparative course. Identify a hero, heroine orvillain from the text. Describe the moment when you believe you saw the mostheroic or most villainous aspect of your chosen character. Explain why you believethat this moment revealed the most heroic or most villainous aspect of his orher character. Support your Read More …
Sive-Introduction to Sive, Mena and Nanna
The play begins with the stage directions, which give the impression that this is a house where money is scarce. We see that the older woman in this scene is hiding the fact that she is smoking a pipe, by trying to conceal the pipe when the other woman enters. Nanna Galvin is the mother Read More …
Exam Question: Cultural Context
“Discuss how those in power in society maintain their dominant position in one text in your comparative course. Develop your response with reference to the text. The text I have studied is Sive by John B. Keane. Characters in this text maintain their power and dominant position through manipulation, fear and threats. Mena is a Read More …
Act 2, Scene 2-Sive is Missing
Mena emerges from the room in hysterics, shouting that Sive is gone. “There’s a bundle of clothes under the quilt where she should be lying. She’s after stealing away on us!” She tells them that she has taken nothing, not even shoes for her feet. They go to check Nanna’s room to see if she Read More …
Act 2, Scene 2-Sean Dota Visits
Mena arrives with her hands full, with Sive following, wearing new clothes and high heels. Mike and Thomasheen go out and bring in the rest of the shopping. They bring in a crate of stout and open a bottle each. Sive is clearly conscious of her new clothes and is happy to swap her high Read More …
Act 2, Scene 2-Nanna Gives the Letter to Mike
Mike quizzes Nanna on why Pats was in the house, but she replies, “Must a mother answer to her only son? Is there no respect for old people?” Mike is exasperated and says that it is hard trying to be a good son and a good husband, showing the difficulty he faces in trying to Read More …
Act 2 Scene 2-Nanna and Pats come up with a plan.
Two weeks have passed since the end of the last scene and we see Nanna alone on stage as there is a knock on the door. Pats enters and says that he has been waiting for the past hour to get Nanna alone in the house. Nanna tells him that Sive has gone to town Read More …
Act 2, Scene 1-Nanna pleads with Mike
When Liam leaves, Mena tells Mike that he has to go see the priest. Sive enters after hearing the commotion and asks if Liam Scuab has been there. Mena tells her that he was and that he came to wish Sive well. Sive is astonished at this and Mena tells her that ‘he’s going away Read More …
Act Two Scene One- Liam Scuab comes to plead with Mike and Mena
Liam Scuab has come to the house looking for Sive but Mena informs him that Sive is not there despite the fact that he saw her bike in the yard. Mena warns Liam that he is not wanted in the house and that there will be consequences if Mike sees him there. Liam says that Read More …