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The sheer diversity of the characters in the play contributes to the multitude of personal needs which become apparent to the audience. Within the play itself, the different kinds of personal needs fall into four general categories: the need to have a sense of identity; the need to escape from reality; the need for modernisation and the need for love. Many of these are in direct conflict with each other and allow Friel to then force the audience to contemplate on the wider issues in the play. The effects of colonisation, is an example. By the end of the play, the fine and intricate web of relations that exists between the characters and much of the characters' hopes and dreams have been shattered. Friel uses it to make a statement about how colonisation often dwarfs and undermines the spirit and essence of the place. It is evident that as the play progresses, personal needs become swept away and destroyed by the wave of colonisation. Thus, from a certain perspective, it can be seen......

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