Exploring Irish Soul: A Symbolical Reading of W. B. Yeats’s The Countess Cathleen
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The Countess Cathleen is a deeply symbolic play. While Cathleen embodies in part Yeats’s ideal of the Anglo-Irish elite, images and roles attributed to her denote her other symbolical positions on various levels. She symbolizes a nation, the spirituality of the Irish, and an invisible soul. Central to the play is the motif of interactions between this world and the other world whose roots can be traced to Irish beliefs and stories that Yeats collected. A contact with the other world appears as an exchange of one’s soul for demons’ gold, which primarily signals an extreme state of mind. The demons play an indispensable role in leading Cathleen to total sacrifice for people. Cathleen is symbolical of something that is essential to one’s life and needs to be protected at all cost. At the same time she also embodies a compassionate soul and has a fundamental connection to the other world.
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The Countess Cathleen is a deeply symbolic play. While Cathleen embodies in part Yeats’s ideal of the Anglo-Irish elite, images and roles attributed to her denote her other symbolical positions on various levels. She symbolizes a nation, the spirituality of the Irish, and an invisible soul. Central to the play is the motif of interactions between this world and the other world whose roots can be traced to Irish beliefs and stories that Yeats collected. A contact with the other world appears as an exchange of one’s soul for demons’ gold, which primarily signals an extreme state of mind. The demons play an indispensable role in leading Cathleen to total sacrifice for people. Cathleen is symbolical of something that is essential to one’s life and needs to be protected at all cost. At the same time she also embodies a compassionate soul and has a fundamental connection to the other world.
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