A Figurative Reading of the Play Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel, on the Basis of the Holy Bible

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FANAEIAN TAJBAKHSH; MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI BEHROOZ; SAFARI MASOUD

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Journal: Journal of Fine Arts: Performing Arts and Music Year:2020 | Volume:25 | Issue:3 Page(s): 43-52

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A Figurative Reading of the Play Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel, on the Basis of the Holy Bible

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FANAEIAN TAJBAKHSH | MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI BEHROOZ | SAFARI MASOUD | Issue Writer Certificate

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Molly SweeneyQ1

Brian FrielQ1

FigurativeQ1

The Holy BibleQ2

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Abstract

Literal and Figurative approaches have always been prominent issues for researchers who L have surveyed several literary archetypes, and have used either literary or linguistic approaches in order to gain a better understanding of these two literary forms. Contradictions between the literal and Figurative forms of rhetoric figures, as a form of language, has represented itself as a polemical matter in classical literary and dramatic texts. Erich Auerbach is one the authors who probed into these two central archetypes in Western literature by discussing both Homer’ s Iliad and Odyssey and The Holy Bible. He compares these two important literal texts with each other, and creates two new worlds by those two texts. Known as “ Ireland’ s Chekhov, ” Brian Friel is one of the most prominent dramatist of Ireland in the last fifty years. Dramatist experts of Ireland believe that he is the true successor of playwrights like Yeats, Synge and O’ Casey. He studied at catholic school and church to be a priest. Then he changed his path to be an instructor, narrator and a playwright at the same time. The play Molly Sweeney, which is Brian Friel’ s magnum opus, is one of those special cases impressed partly by Homer’ s Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the biblical archetypes with literal and Figurative literary forms. Sometimes in literary and dramatic texts, we face an obscure and dark point where the text tells nothing about them. To be more precise, sometimes the reader faces a question about the characters or the story and sometimes he or she is unable to understand part of the text correctly where the text has no answer. Therefore, the “ ambiguity” is the problem in such texts. As a result, without attaining all semantic arrangements and word order, one cannot attain the fact. Also without considering the artwork’ s general Context, no correct readings happen. A Context consisting of words, clauses and sentences bound to each other, forms a shape that shows the architecture of the artwork. Therefore, it should be noted that it is the “ Context” which leads us to the correct answers of the questions or ambiguities. The ambiguity in the relationship between the “ Mother” and “ Father” , and the fact that the father does not letting Molly go to school, is not an issue perceivable in the first reading of the text. Given the fact that Friel studied at a catholic school, and acted as a priest, and was an author with language-centric concerns, we may consider signs of the Bible Context into the text. Figurative readings of the play and discovering the hidden metaphors into ambiguities in this play has been done on the basis of Erich Auerbach’ s ideas reflected in his book Mimesis. Through this reading, we may face a form of metaphoric pattern in Molly Sweeney, and the necessity of close reading of this text within a Biblical Context and a descriptive and analytical manner, leads us to a better understanding of the metaphoric pattern, and paves the way for answering the internal ambiguities of this play.

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FANAEIAN, TAJBAKHSH, MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI, BEHROOZ, & SAFARI, MASOUD. (2020). A Figurative Reading of the Play Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel, on the Basis of the Holy Bible. HONAR-HA-YE-NAMAYESHI-VA-MOOSIGHI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA), 25(3 ), 43-52. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/386269/en

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FANAEIAN TAJBAKHSH, MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI BEHROOZ, SAFARI MASOUD. A Figurative Reading of the Play Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel, on the Basis of the Holy Bible. HONAR-HA-YE-NAMAYESHI-VA-MOOSIGHI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA)[Internet]. 2020;25(3 ):43-52. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/386269/en

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TAJBAKHSH FANAEIAN, BEHROOZ MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI, and MASOUD SAFARI, “A Figurative Reading of the Play Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel, on the Basis of the Holy Bible,” HONAR-HA-YE-NAMAYESHI-VA-MOOSIGHI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA), vol. 25, no. 3 , pp. 43–52, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/386269/en

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