ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.34 pp.99-122
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2010.34.99
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2010.34.99
A Study of Conflict in Yeats's Early Plays
Abstract
Yeats has expended so much energy on theatre for the simple reason that hisimagination was essentially dramatic. Just as in his lyrical poetry he was to find away of embodying his conviction that conflict is at the root of life, so in his dramahe was to develop techniques that enabled him to shape his vision into actableform.
Despite great differences in subject matter and technique, Yeats’s playsconsistently dramatize the conflict between the opposing values: passion, intuition,heroism and self-assertion, on the one hand, reason, prudence, convention,community and self-submission, on the other hand.
This paper studies the conflicts in Yeats’s three early plays: the conflictbetween the poet Aleel’s world of dreams and beauty and Cathleen’s decision tosacrifice herself for the community in The Countess Cathleen, the conflict betweenthe life-denying forces of moral orthodoxy and social conformism and gaiety andaesthetic vitality in The Land of Heart’s Desire, and the conflict between the poetForgael’s transcendental journey and his companions’ absorption in wine, women,and loot in The Shadowy Waters.
Thus, conflict is a powerful instrument to dramatize Yeats’s dramatic vision andthese early plays, in spite of many failings, show the embryo of the recurrent themeof conflict in his more successful later plays.
Despite great differences in subject matter and technique, Yeats’s playsconsistently dramatize the conflict between the opposing values: passion, intuition,heroism and self-assertion, on the one hand, reason, prudence, convention,community and self-submission, on the other hand.
This paper studies the conflicts in Yeats’s three early plays: the conflictbetween the poet Aleel’s world of dreams and beauty and Cathleen’s decision tosacrifice herself for the community in The Countess Cathleen, the conflict betweenthe life-denying forces of moral orthodoxy and social conformism and gaiety andaesthetic vitality in The Land of Heart’s Desire, and the conflict between the poetForgael’s transcendental journey and his companions’ absorption in wine, women,and loot in The Shadowy Waters.
Thus, conflict is a powerful instrument to dramatize Yeats’s dramatic vision andthese early plays, in spite of many failings, show the embryo of the recurrent themeof conflict in his more successful later plays.
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