How can I Write a detailed note on the Christian symbolism of The Riders to the Sea?

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Riders to the Sea

How can I Write a detailed note on the Christian symbolism of The Riders to the Sea?

I need to write like 10 or 7 sentence about the Christian symblisim of the riders to the sea. I think there is only two, help me if there are more. I know only about the mother gives to her son her bleesing and the holy water after he died. Are there more than these two?

here is the link of the play-written story https://www.one-act-plays.com/dramas/riders_to_the_sea.html

Asked by Waff D #1018716 on 5/9/2020 6:04 PM

Last updated by Waff D #1018716 on 5/9/2020 9:18 PM

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Answered by Aslan on 5/9/2020 6:12 PM

The play is steeped in traditional Irish Catholicism: there are priests, blessings, Holy Water, etc. However, traditional Catholicism rests, somewhat uneasily, side-by-side with more pagan religious elements. Maurya doesn't heed the priest's empty, naive platitudes so much as she looks to the stars and other natural phenomena for warnings and signs. She knows more about the island than he does; she is skeptical of his outsider status and he is never even seen within the boundaries of the cottage. She heeds the power of the sea much more than she heeds God. It is only at the end of the text when her battle with the sea is over that she can peacefully submerge herself back into the rituals and rites of her Catholic faith.

Answered by Waff D #1018716 on 5/9/2020 7:16 PM

Thank you sir for your help. One question, what are the off-stage here? In the play there is only one thing? When the mother went to give her son bread abd bleesing she saw her two sons on the sea with horses ?

is there anymore?

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