Theme or Issue: Il Postino. Dancing at Lughnasa and Lies of Silence – Comparative Course Higher Level

The three texts that I realise studied on my comparative course are the novel, Lies of Silence by Brian Moore, the playwright, bound at Lughnasa by Brian Friel and the film, Il Postino by Michael Radford. The typography or issue that I have studied is hit the sack and marriage. The authors of the texts used discern atomic number 42s to heighten our a struggleeness of love and marriage. In Dancing at Lughnasa, the main(prenominal) moment in which we can see love is when Chris and Gerry dance. This has a middling wild-eyed aspect, although their love family human analogyship is unstable and they are not married.Gerry does not pay much attention to his love child, which he had with Chris Michael. This is evident from undivided of the unkept promises he made to him the most memorable being a bicycle Ill get you a bike. Similarly, the love relationship between Beatrice and Mario in Il Postino has an unmistakable romantic quality to it. The romantic aspect to Gerrys relati onship with Chris is apparent when they dance together. However, the fact that this relationship consists only of the occasional romantic interlude means that it never actually develops.The romantic aspect of Mario and Beatrices love and marriage is more pronounce and spontaneous. However, there is no evidence of a romance ever pickings place between Michael and watered in Lies of Silence, as we are rattling aware of his reasons for marrying her the way she looked and the way other men envied him. It is also abstemious that there never will be romance between them as Michael is having an affair with a young Canadian journalist called Andrea. Another secernate moment that heightens my awareness of love is in Il Postino when Pablo Neruda and Mario go to the cafe, which is spiel by Beatrices aunt Gloria.This suggests to Beatrice that Neruda and Mario are intimate friends. Nerudas sour ultimately proves critical by teaching Mario about metaphors, he enables him to hold in Bea trices heart with romantic language. This is the main moment and is the reason why Beatrice acknowledges Mario in the first place in turn starting the whole relationship. In pipeline to the other two texts, only in Il Postino does a third party intervene to develop a winsome relationship Il Postino is imilarly unique in terms of another fictional character (Beatrices aunt) endeavouring to bring an end to their relationship. She puts a cynical interpretation on Marios metaphorical language, telling Beatrice When a man starts to touch you with his words, hes not far off with his hands. While it may be argued that in Dancing at Lughnasa Kate opposes Gerrys relationship with Chris in a similar manner, she still acknowledges the positive aspects of Gerrys influence on her sister Her whole face alters when shes happy, doesnt it?They dance so well together. This makes me aware of the different kinds of love in the texts Gerry and Chris and a sisterly love. From the outset of both(pr enominal) Lies of Silence and Dancing at Lughnasa it is pass by that the light upon personal relationships in both texts rest on fragile foundations because neither is built on genuine love. In Lies of Silence, the frailty of Michaels marriage to Moire is evident from an early point in the text when we see his preoccupations with Andrea, the young Canadian journalist with whom he is having an affair.In Dancing At Lughnasa Gerrys relationship with Chris is even more fragile as he comes and goes as it suits him and proves to be utterly unreliable, even being unaffected by the presence of the love child (whom he barely knows) he has had with Chris. In contrast to both of these texts, the marriage between Mario and Beatrice is actually based on genuine love. By reading and studying, the theme of love and marriage in all three texts made me aware of the realistic state of and the overleap of love in, some marriages.Another key moment is in Lies of Silence when Michael is coerce to c hoose between his wife and a few strangers in the hotel, which he managed. This key moment portrays a sense of betrayal in love and marriage. Michael finds himself in a real predicament. He places Moires brio in danger by deciding to ring the police. This key moment is the climax of the text as it shows us that Michael really does not impression any emotion for Moire at all. This is the significant point where the dislocation of communication is in clear focus. On the other hand, in Dancing at Lughnasa, Agnes and Rose emigrate to London in order to carry out their family.This shows two contrasting love relationships. As well as that, both Lies of Silence and Dancing at Lughnasas main key moments are at the end of the texts where their destinations are decided. Both Michaels relationship with Moire (Lies of Silence) and Gerrys relationship with Chris (Dancing at Lughnasa) ultimately end unhappily, causing the feminine protagonists considerable anguish, with their inner pain in b oth cases involving a head of depression. The closing key moment in Lies of Silence in relation to love and marriage is when Michael decides to leave with his mistress for London and says his goodbyes to Moire.Similarly, the last key moment in Dancing at Lughnasa in relation to this theme of love and marriage is when Gerry leaves to fight in the Spanish civil war never to return to Chris and his son Michael. Moire suffers from bulimia before she marries Michael, solely their failed marriage inevitably compounds her personal problems. Chris failed relationship with Gerry similarly causes her great distress, with Kate vividly recalling her sisters torment the previous winter Remember last winter? all that sobbing and lamenting in the middle of the dark?She predicts that Chris will again collapse into one of her depressions after Gerry leaves. In contrast to both of the other texts, Marios loving relationship with Beatrice ends happily tho the last key moment in terms of the them e is Marios unfortunate death at the hands of fate leaving Beatrice detached and alone along with the other two main female protagonists. In conclusion, the authors use of key moments has helped heighten my awareness of love and marriage wake both its positive and negative aspects. By Caroline Heraghty scored a B2 pic