A Comparison of “Riders to the Sea” with Greek Tragedy

Greek tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles present spectacles of human suffering and inexorable necessity wheel in the backdrop of the massive machinery of inscrutable fate. Greek tragedy shows the essential pre-determination of the human situation on earth. In modern times, this Greek concept of tragedy lost favour with many tragic dramatists like O’Neil or Arthur … Read more

Synge’s Treatment of Life in Riders to the Sea

Riders to the Sea presents us with an almost claustrophobic world where suffering reigns supreme in human life. This one-act play widens, deepens, and universalizes the pathetic plight of hapless people who have no other place to live except Ireland’s mysterious islands off the shore.  Synge selected this remote Aran Islands as the locale for his … Read more