Riders to the Sea PowerPoint Presenation

1. John Millington Synge

2. •Born – 1871
•Irish dramatist
•At 18, lost religious faith
•Became agnostic
•Died - 1909
•Age - 38

3. NOVELS
•In the shadow of the Glen -1903
•Riders to the Sea - 1904
•The playboy of the western world – 1907
POEM
Poems and translations – 1909
PROSE
The Aran Island – 1907

4. First performed- February 25, 1904-
Molesworth Hall, Dublin.
A one-act tragedy
Set- Aran Islands
The poetic dialogue of rural Ireland
Based not- traditional conflicts.
But cruelty of the sea.

13. Maurya
Cathleen & Nora
Bartley
Deceased Sons –
Shawn, Sheamus, Stephen, Patch, Michael.
The Young Priest
Townspeople

14.  Set- Cottage Kitchen
 Oil-Skins, White Boards, Spinning Wheel
 Cathleen spins wheel
 Nora brought Bundle
 Given byYoung Priest
 Drowned man’s Shirt and
Stockings

15. Nora and Cathleen try to open the bundle

16.  Maurya comes out
 Hide the bundle in Turf-loft
 For Making bread for Bartley
 Maurya: Bartley do not go,
Priest will stop
 Nora: Priest permitted.

17.  Bartley entered – asked
New Rope -
Connemara.
 Maurya denies- If
Michael body found-
need rope - down the
white Boards
 Bartley: No way- Already

18. Maurya denies to give the rope

19.  Galway fair
 No boats - Two weeks or beyond
 Sell Sheep and Pig – Cath
 Maurya: She doesn’t know.
How will we live?- If you dead.
 Bartley: will be back 2 or 3 days

21. Coast Near
Galway

22.  Maurya: “This night I’ll have no son”, God save
him.
 Cath scold her- She didn’t bless - Forget bread.
 Goes hurry with bread to catch him.
 Unsteadily – Nora gives stick - Connemara by
Michael.
 Maurya: Elders leave things for Younger.

24.  Mother left
 Both open bundle- find Shirt- try to compare
other shirt
 But Bartley wore
 Find Stockings
 Nora found 3 score stitches
 Both decided and cry - These are Michael’s.

26.  Maurya comes with Bread
 They hide bundle
 Cath: Didn’t you see him?
 Maurya: I Missed and saw a fear fullest thing
 Michael- who wears fine clothes and new shoes
 Cath denied
 Maurya - Worry

28.  Maurya – “Bartley will be lost now”
 Make coffin for me.
 I wont live after this.
 Lost husband
father-in-law, six sons
 No one can live 9 days in the sea.

29.  Cath gives Michael’s clothes to Maurya
 Old woman enters and says
“Bartley is dead”
 Cath asked, “In what way he died”
 Old woman says, ”Gray Pony
washed out”

31.  All kneel down before table before Bartley’s
body.
 Maurya laments, “I don’t cry and pray”
 “I will have great rest”
 She kneels down and says prayers.

33.  Maurya stands and spreads
pieces of Michael’s clothes
besides Bartley’s body
 Sprinkled last drop of
holy water.

34.  Michael is got clean burial in sea by God’s grace.
 Make fine coffin and deep grave for Bartley.
 “What more can we want than that?”
 No man can be living for ever, and we must be
satisfied.

35. Maurya Kneels Down and Pray

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