Yeats’s Heroic Farce: The Green Helmet
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This essay analyzes Yeats’s The Green Helmet focusing on the implication of the subtitle “An Heroic Farce.” First of all, it figures out why this play is a heroic farce through the exploration of the characters in the play. It is argued that Cuchulain displays such heroic aspects that Yeats considers as ideal heroism, whereas the other Irish warriors like Laegaire and Conall show anti-heroic qualities. The next step is to trace the reason that Yeats the playwright designated the subtitle on the basis of the historical context surrounding the play. The Green Helmet written right after The Playboy of the Western World riots in 1907 satirizes the disturbing situation, and it suggests Yeats’s revised heroism to modern Ireland. Finally, this essay argues that Yeats’s heroism could be considered as a farce to his contemporary Irish people.
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This essay analyzes Yeats’s The Green Helmet focusing on the implication of the subtitle “An Heroic Farce.” First of all, it figures out why this play is a heroic farce through the exploration of the characters in the play. It is argued that Cuchulain displays such heroic aspects that Yeats considers as ideal heroism, whereas the other Irish warriors like Laegaire and Conall show anti-heroic qualities. The next step is to trace the reason that Yeats the playwright designated the subtitle on the basis of the historical context surrounding the play. The Green Helmet written right after The Playboy of the Western World riots in 1907 satirizes the disturbing situation, and it suggests Yeats’s revised heroism to modern Ireland. Finally, this essay argues that Yeats’s heroism could be considered as a farce to his contemporary Irish people.
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