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- Title: An Accurate Description of What Has Never Occurred: Brian Friel's Faith Healer and Wildean Intertextuality (Critical Essay)
- Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 396 KB
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This article argues for the intertextual relationship between Brian Friel's Faith Healer and Oscar Wilde's theoretical essays and The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Wilde's theories about lying as being a tool for the creation of alternative forms of artistic truth shall be compared with Faith Healer's interlocking and contradictory monologues which create the notion of subjective as opposed to objective truths. These contradictory accounts of essentially the same story can be likened to the three narrators in The Portrait of Mr. W.H. who present distinctly different accounts of the life of Mr. W.H. It shall be argued that Frank Hardy is the most Wildean character in the play because he seems to be the most deliberate liar in the drama. While the others may only be misremembering events, he actively fictionalizes his accounts, which is exactly what Wilde demands from all artists in "The Decay of Lying'. This rebellion against factuality and realism makes Faith Healer the perfect precursor to the Field Day theatre group which intended to create an 'artistic fifth province' rather than passively imitating the harsh realities of life in Ireland in the late Twentieth Century. **********