Order and Disorder

Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature Works grade: A University of Minho (Arts and Humanities) course: English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature language: English abstract: Abstract: The essay proposes to analyze Brian Friel’s work Dancing at Lughnasa in a peculiar perspective – that of dance language and music forms in which the ‘warrioresses’ Mundy are involved. Exploring these forms intrinsically attached to public and private lives which are issues to that society we will try to go beyond the text and understand what Friel intended to say to the Irish society. Beyond the language movement and its contrasts we will analyze in what performance can at certain point mystify life. We will be (re) organizing the rituals and myths absorbed in the Mundy family and Irish society in order to contextualize them in present Ireland and world. Equally important relate the motifs in Ballybeg inside-out world (the carnivalization invoked in Friel’s work). Finally the essay tangles the different efforts of Brian Friel’s in Dancing at Lughnasa when using representative forms of speech (music dance silence) and what considers being a more viable and broader definition of Ireland itself.. Key Words: Dance Music Friel’s play - Dancing at Lughnasa and Family.