The Sacrifice in Yeats’s Plays
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Sacrifice is one of the most venerated values at the heart of Irish nationalism and played an instrumental role in its fight for independence. Thus, it is a recurring theme of Irish nationalist literary works. This paper focuses on three plays of W. B. Yeats: The Countess Cathleen (1892), Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902), The King’s Threshold (1904). These three plays share a common theme: sacrifice; yet the sacrifice is made by three representatives of their classes respectively: aristocrats, peasants, poets that Yeats considers the three pillars of his ideal nation. This paper firstly examines different forms of sacrifice in them: in The Countess Cathleen, Countess Cathleen sells her soul to save the peasants; in Cathleen Ni Houlihan, Michael Gillane, a young peasant, answers the call of the old woman, the embodiment of Ireland, and leaves his bride and family behind to fight for her; in The King’s Threshold, Seanchan, the national poet, sacrifices his life to defend the poet’s ancient right to sit on the Council of State. Based on close reading of the plays, the paper proceeds to analyze the significance of their sacrifices both in ideological and realistic terms. The aim of the paper is trying to get a better understanding of Yeats’s stance toward sacrifice.
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Sacrifice is one of the most venerated values at the heart of Irish nationalism and played an instrumental role in its fight for independence. Thus, it is a recurring theme of Irish nationalist literary works. This paper focuses on three plays of W. B. Yeats: The Countess Cathleen (1892), Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902), The King’s Threshold (1904). These three plays share a common theme: sacrifice; yet the sacrifice is made by three representatives of their classes respectively: aristocrats, peasants, poets that Yeats considers the three pillars of his ideal nation. This paper firstly examines different forms of sacrifice in them: in The Countess Cathleen, Countess Cathleen sells her soul to save the peasants; in Cathleen Ni Houlihan, Michael Gillane, a young peasant, answers the call of the old woman, the embodiment of Ireland, and leaves his bride and family behind to fight for her; in The King’s Threshold, Seanchan, the national poet, sacrifices his life to defend the poet’s ancient right to sit on the Council of State. Based on close reading of the plays, the paper proceeds to analyze the significance of their sacrifices both in ideological and realistic terms. The aim of the paper is trying to get a better understanding of Yeats’s stance toward sacrifice.
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