Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How Many Miles To Babylon: Cultural Context
- Class
- Upper class, Anglo-Irish aristocracy
- Wealthy background
- Reference to estate, stables, lake and house
- Afford private education and trips around the world
- Jerry's poverty
- Jeremiah; 'Not a typical peasant name'
- 'There's nothing to do at home but plant the spuds and then dig them up and eat them'
- 'He was much smaller than I was'
- Setting
- Early modern twentieth century society
- Wicklow
- Irish Nationalist movement
- Political conflict
- Trenches warfare in France
- WW1
- Religion
- Protestant VS Catholic
- Alec is well educated, learns latin
- Neither take religion seriously, parody blessing in pub
- 'Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus Saboth'
- Jerry spits on the ground when Alec asks if the priest has come
- 'Now father bless me...'
- Church rules and catechism plays a role at the end.
- Alec takes no comfort from religion before death
- 'Faith is to comfort the living, it seems to me that it may be irrelevant for the dead.'
- Morality of shooting Jerry