The character of Cathleen in JM Synge's "Riders to the Sea
Dipak Kumar Hazra
The character of Cathleen:-In JM Synge's "Riders to the Sea", the women are central to the play and represent strength, resilience and sorrow. Cathleen is one of the women through whom Synge highlights the endurance and spirituality of women in a community burdened by loss and hardship. Cathleen is the eldest daughter of Maurya. She is about twenty years old yet she is like the mother-figure in the family. She takes care of the household works and family especially her mother and brothers. She tells Nora to hide Michael's clothes from her grief-striken mother. Cathleen ensures that Bartley gets the cake and also requests her mother to bless Bartley to avoid bad luck. She arranges the funerals of her brothers. Thus Cathleen is presented as practical, strong, composed, responsible, rational, dutiful and caring woman who went through great pain and hardship yet she has immense power to adapt herself according to the time, representing the strength of the women on the Aran Islands.
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