Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Hughââ¬â¢s character Essay
The final story, which Hugh tells, incorporates the globey criticisms of Hughs reference book. He covers up his own failings and inadequacies as a defence tool and reiterates this by saying to Owen, to dream up everything is a form of madness. This story is almost a turning draw of Hughs character and for the audiences interruption of his character. Hugh is no interminable a two dimensional caricature but a true character with human attributes, hence why we can be critical and admirable towards him. afterwards all, Hugh is a self-educated man with a broad depth of knowledge of the Classics, speaking four languages, that we know of, Greek, Latin, Gaelic and slope nearly all of which he would pee to have taught himself. He seems to be beginn to share his knowledge. By teaching the Classics in his environment of boorish poverty, himself a picture of poor ragged countryman, we must appreciate his drive and ability. Hugh also formed the Hedge School well as farthermost as we know.He is attempting to educate the locals and one almost feels that he has taken the school from the hedge lines into the barn and still as an old man in his early sixties he has the ambition to move out front and upward to a new position at the new discipline school. He is clearly a figure in the local alliance who is looked up and respected by his peers and students alike. In addition, Yolland has a great masses of respect for him, calling him an astute man. Yolland almost has more respect for Hugh than Owen does because Owen continues to be critical of him and Yolland repeats, But so astute, almost placing Hugh on a pedestal.In addition, as an audience you have to respect his ability to cope with his situation, his wife has died and his sons are without a mother. It is easy to be critical of Hugh but you have to value his ability to cope with the hard reality of the times he is living in even if that means trying to erase the past. After all he did persist in an ag e of hand to brim existence and he almost blocks out the reality of these hardships. His survival mechanism is a natural and human instinct. We cannot in reality blame him for wanting to live in an unrealistic world of Greek myth and Latin past. incomplete can you chastise his drinking. His lifestyle and the stress of his situation is what drives him to drink and you cannot really fault him for that. All of these small but simple gestures that Friel incorporates into Hughs character are what make us as an audience have esteem for him. Friel does not create a stereotypical character, but a fully-rounded undivided with human qualities, it is these qualities, which allow us as an audience to both admire and criticise his character.
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