Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
The plays of J.M. Synge reflect his theory of the central life
force, particularly as it is embodied by the women in the plays. It
is essentially the elan vital of Henri Bergson. On the Aran Islands
Synge observed the intuitive strength of women which he portrayed
later in the plays. Implicit are the elements of a folk spirit common
in the work of both Synge and Bergson. A reading of the plays with
the emphasis on Playboy of the Western World and Deirdre of the
Sorrows reveals a creative vitality which is both Bergsonian and
mythic, and which pivots on the choices made by the women toward a
spiritual unity with nature.
force, particularly as it is embodied by the women in the plays. It
is essentially the elan vital of Henri Bergson. On the Aran Islands
Synge observed the intuitive strength of women which he portrayed
later in the plays. Implicit are the elements of a folk spirit common
in the work of both Synge and Bergson. A reading of the plays with
the emphasis on Playboy of the Western World and Deirdre of the
Sorrows reveals a creative vitality which is both Bergsonian and
mythic, and which pivots on the choices made by the women toward a
spiritual unity with nature.
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