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‘Juno and the Paycock’ by Sean O’Casey

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Juno and the Paycock’ Essay


The play that I have studied is ‘Juno and the Paycock’ by Sean O’Casey. The play is set in the tenements in Dublin during the struggle for Irish independence. The play centers on the lives of Boyle family, who believe that they have inherited enough money to change their lives forever.

They purchase vast amounts of items on credit and find themselves unable to pay for these items when the much anticipated inheritance does not materialize. In addition to this, the family is confronted with further hardship through their son Johnny, who has fought in the war and betrayed his comrade, a crime for which he will pay the ultimate price.

Their daughter Mary, a girl who believes herself superior to the rest of her family, eventually finds herself pregnant and alone, abandoned by a man she believed loved her, but who in fact was interested in her solely for her family’s inheritance. Captain Boyle, their father, who should be in control of the family, is presented to us as a lazy, work shy drunk, who cares for no one but himself.

The burden of the family’s considerable hardship falls exclusively on Juno, Boyle’s wife. O’Casey portrays Juno as a hard working women who will do anything to take care of her family. We see this through his characterization of her, the dialogue she is involved in and in many key scenes throughout the play.

From the beginning of the play, we immediately see that the greatest source of hardship in Juno Boyle’s life is her husband. Instead of supporting her as a husband should, he is selfish, work shy and tells his wife constant lies, all of which show that Juno is trapped in a hopeless marriage. “You can’t climb a laddher, but you can skip like a goat into a snug”.

You see immediately that Boyle lies and that he is work shy, but Juno is not stupid and already sees what he is up to and says that he can do all stuff all day but when it comes to work he just won’t work.

Juno shows herself to be a caring and devoted mother. She experiences difficulty in her relationship with her daughter Mary in that she does not understand the principles Mary continuously talks about. Despite this, she supports her daughter throughout the play and at the end, makes the ultimate sacrifice of leaving her husband so as to look after her pregnant daughter. “If Mary goes, I’ll go with her.” Even though in the beginning of the play Mary and Juno’s relationship wasn’t that strong.

When Juno says that if Mary goes she will goes shows that she still loves her daughter and she would do the ultimate sacrifice to leave her house and look after her daughter and baby.

Juno’s relationship with Johnny is not so bad in the beginning of the play. Throughout the play the relationship goes worse, Johnny starts to keeps secrets from her mother. Then later Juno starts to stop worrying about Johnny, but then near the end Juno starts to notice Johnny and starts to worry. “Maybe I didn’t feel sorry enough for Mrs.

Religion is very important in this play especially for Juno as she places all her hope in God. The only thing that gives Juno strength to cope with Johnny’s death is the unshakeable spiritual faith in religion. “Mary, Mary, you mustn’t say them things. We’ll want all the help we can get from God…” This quote was a conversation between Mary and Juno where Mary says that Jerry was right that there was no God because Johnny died.

Juno explains in this quote that there is God and that they already have got enough help from God. It shows that even though Mary gives up on God, Juno still believes strongly in God and explains that instead of blaming God instead stay strong on with the spiritual faith in God.

There are frequent references to the Virgin Mary, who like Juno and Mrs. Tancred, has lost a beloved son. Her likeness hangs in the apartment above a votive light, which is extinguished when Johnny is dragged away. Johnny relies on the Virgin’s candle to keep him safe, just as he relies on his actual mother Juno to protect him.

Poverty dominates the play, whose characters have barely have enough money to stay afloat. Juno description in stage directions also show that poverty has taken over her body and that the Boyle’s live in a tenement building. “She is forty-five years of age, and twenty years ago she must have been a pretty women; but her face has now assumed that look which ultimately settles down upon the faces of the women of the working-class; a look of listless monotony and harassed anxiety,…” The stage directions clearly shows that when poverty had not dominated her body she was beautiful, but because poverty and in addition Mr.

Boyle doesn’t help Juno with her work she has been very worn out.

The play dramatizes the conflict between the worlds of fantasy and reality. Even though only Juno seems to have the firmest grasp on reality than her family but she still imagines such as when she says that she is going to leave her house and never come back. “We’ll go.

The play ‘Juno and the Paycock’ by Sean O’Casey is a play where it is all about how people lived in poverty in war and what really happened actually. The main character Juno is clearly in the play the most hard-working character. She does not ever stop working because of the importance of religion and that religions gives her strength.

So the main conclusion is that Juno keeps the house in place even though there is poverty and war going on in Dublin.


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