On the surface level Tagore’s play The Post Office represents the eagerness of Amal, a sick child kept confined in a room, to participate in the activity of life around him. But beyond this apparent simplicity lies its profound meaning. It has been read as an allegory of soul seeking what liesContinue Reading
One of the most remarkable features of Rabindranath Tagore’s play The Post Office is the use of symbolism. Tagore uses different phrases, words, characters symbolically. The reader and the audience need to interpret them for their underlying significance. Tagore himself gave an interpretation of The Post Office. Amal’s confinement to the small roomContinue Reading
Rabindranath Tagore’s The Post Office is widely considered as a play of symbols, rather than a play of characters and incidents. However, unlike most symbolic plays, characters in The Post Office are not shadowy and featureless representing certain abstract ideas or feelings. Characters in the play are highly individualized ones breathing life in theirContinue Reading
The title of Rabindranath Tagore’s play The Post Office is highly significant – thematically, as well as, symbolically. It provides an emotional centre around which the main action of the play emerges. The symbolic significance of the post office is very much complex, and works on several levels in different parts ofContinue Reading
Rabindranath Tagore’s 1912 play, The Post Office, revolves around Amal, a child confined to his adopted uncle’s house by an incurable disease. Inspired by the construction of a local post office, Amal fantasizes about receiving a letter from the king or being a postman. The play was translated into English byContinue Reading
Greek Tragedy has an influence on Irish theatre that is only second to that of its own myth and folk literature. Although a one-act play, Synge’s Rider to the Sea is very akin to classical tragedy, both structurally and thematically. Synge’s strict maintenance of the unities (unity of place, of time andContinue Reading
Bartley is the one of the two riders in John Millington Synge’s play, Riders to the Sea, the other being the ghost of Maurya’s fifth son, Michael. The rest of the menfolk have already died in the sea. Bartley, the youngest of six sons, is now the sole support of the household.Continue Reading
John Millington Synge’s one-act short play of a fishing family being struck by tragedy is set in Irishman, the middle island among the group of three Aran Islands, the most barren and forlorn part of an otherwise green Ireland. These islands are situated in Galway Bay, about thirty miles fromContinue Reading
The sea plays a vital role in the life of the Aran islanders in Synge’s one act play “Riders to the Sea” (1904). Their life and story are set up against the background of the sea. Its unseen presence fills the mind of both the characters and the audience. AsContinue Reading
The protagonist in J. M. Synge’s one-act tragic play Riders to the Sea, Maurya, is a peasant woman belonging to the Irish fishing community of the Aran Islands. Maurya appears to be a passive and helpless victim; yet the intensity of her suffering in the hands of the cruel and unpredictableContinue Reading
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