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By now you should be aware that any question on characterisation or how a writer presents a character requires you to consider how the character is constructed and to what purpose. Obviously different writers use some different methods, compare for example Bennett and Dickens. However, the following checklist is particularly relevant to Friel and many of the methods apply to other texts you are studying: 1. Friel's pen portraits contained in 'stage directions'. Note these are not directly available to the audience but will influence/instruct a director and an actor, and , of course, can be read by a reader. They contain significant details about the characters physical appearance and personality. 2. The physical appearance of the characters is significant and represents some of their purpose in the play and the ideas which they dramatise. For example, Jimmy Jack Cassie's 'filthy' clothes starkly contrast with the beauty and richness of his learning, just at Friel wants to dramatise the point that material poverty and cultural/spiritual richness co-exist in Baile Beag, 'certain cultures expend on their vocabularies and syntax acquisitive energies and ostentations entirely lacking in their material lives.' (Hugh P.
Approximate Word count = 701
Approximate Pages = 2.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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