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The Lieutenant of Inishmore, by Martin McDonagh
Title: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, by Martin McDonagh
Category: Arts & Humanities
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore, by Martin McDonagh
"Four dead fellas, two dead cats, my hairstyle ruined!", sighs Davey. "So all this terror has been for absolutely nothing?", asks Davey, to whom Padraic's dad replies, "It has!" This is the quotation that I, personally, found the most interesting in the whole play.
The escalating carnage, which we have been exposed throughout the play, represents the author's miniature vision of a country floored [knocked down] by self-extinction: with this, he has tried to depict, …showed first 75 words of 634 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 634 total…tortures or blows up, but who has an obsessive sentiment for animals, in this case, his pet cat. The 2 main characters, Padraic and Mairead, would gladly kill anyone or even each other if they had to, but then they all get depressed in the idea of harming a poor cat. This suggests the subversive values of political extremism. The final message shows how morally obtuse terrorists are and how ultimately futile the Irish violence is.
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