Brian Friel - Translations Important Quotes?

Hi everyone,

I'm slowly working through annotating my copy of Translations, but are there any crucial quotes that need attention drawing to?

Thanks for any positive help :smile:

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Jhawkins

Jimmy: 'I am a barbarian in this place because I am not understood'

A lot of the words are actually significant.. like Yolland saying "I'm lost" or "I'll learn to decode you yet"

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Claire_Emma

there are lots!
I did it for AS
Bridget "it is easier to stamp out learning than to recall it"
Manus "I couldn't - I can't go against him" theme of young crippled, physically and metaphorically by older generation
Hugh "it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language"
Yolland "I'll see you yesterday" irony, never does see her tomorow.
Maire "O my God, that leap across the ditch nearly killed me" Irony. does kill yolland we pressume, theme of crossing boundaries/ditches eg language barrier

and so on :smile:

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