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Nicknamed the “Infant Prodigy,” Jimmy Jack is a bachelor in his sixties who is fluent in Latin and ancient Greek and attends classes at the Baile Beag hedge school for the company and intellectual stimulation. Jimmy Jack frequently recites Homer aloud, musing on the various proper translations of ancient Greek and the beauty of the goddess Athene. Though Jimmy Jack is initially a source of comic relief, at the end of the play he imagines marrying Athene and becomes despondent at his loneliness and isolation in the world. He represents nationalists who cling too closely to a mythic vision of the Irish past and, in doing so, are left behind by the inevitable wave of change overtaking the island.
Jimmy Jack Cassie Quotes in Translations
The Translations quotes below are all either spoken by Jimmy Jack Cassie or refer to Jimmy Jack Cassie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Maire: That's the height of my Latin. Fit me better if I had even that much English.
Jimmy: English? I thought you had some English?
Maire: Three words. Wait — there was a spake I used to have off by heart. What's this it was?
Her accent is strange because she is speaking a foreign language and because she does not understand what she is saying.
“In Norfolk we besport ourselves around the maypoll.” What about that!
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Jimmy Jack Cassie Quotes in Translations
The Translations quotes below are all either spoken by Jimmy Jack Cassie or refer to Jimmy Jack Cassie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Act 1
Quotes
Maire: That's the height of my Latin. Fit me better if I had even that much English.
Jimmy: English? I thought you had some English?
Maire: Three words. Wait — there was a spake I used to have off by heart. What's this it was?
Her accent is strange because she is speaking a foreign language and because she does not understand what she is saying.
“In Norfolk we besport ourselves around the maypoll.” What about that!
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Explanation and Analysis:
