show how riders to the sea transcends its regional character and acquires a universal significance?

I do not have a copy of this text, but I did find a source that had looked into this theme in great detail. The section below is a direct quote;

"The uniqueness of Riders To The Sea lies in the fact that this context -- bound, tropical a regional play about the life of a peasant woman a her immediate family in the Aran Islands at the beginning of the 20th cent should attract (attract) and govern the minds of readers throughout the world for aeons to come it is indubitable that the local colour - involving. The presentation of the mores a manners , the superstitions a rituals , the professions a livelihoods , the intimacies a agonies of the A . Islanders in an unindustrialized society should transfix this playing one location at one time. Yet the suffering of a bereaved mother, and the transformation of her character through the realization that it is not her specific tragedy but the tragedy of all mankind, her development from selfishness to selflessness, from ego-centralism to charity a humanity, finds a sympathetic chord in every human breast. The change in world - view, a desirable change for every human bring , makes it universal a journal."

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show how riders to the sea transcends its regional character and acquires a universal significance?

I do not have a copy of this text, but I did find a source that had looked into this theme in great detail. The section below is a direct quote;

"The uniqueness of Riders To The Sea lies in the fact that this context -- bound, tropical a regional play about the life of a peasant woman a her immediate family in the Aran Islands at the beginning of the 20th cent should attract (attract) and govern the minds of readers throughout the world for aeons to come it is indubitable that the local colour - involving. The presentation of the mores a manners , the superstitions a rituals , the professions a livelihoods , the intimacies a agonies of the A . Islanders in an unindustrialized society should transfix this playing one location at one time. Yet the suffering of a bereaved mother, and the transformation of her character through the realization that it is not her specific tragedy but the tragedy of all mankind, her development from selfishness to selflessness, from ego-centralism to charity a humanity, finds a sympathetic chord in every human breast. The change in world - view, a desirable change for every human bring , makes it universal a journal."

That's my opinion.

"The uniqueness of Riders To The Sea lies in the fact that this context -- bound, tropical a regional play about the life of a peasant woman a her immediate family in the Aran Islands at the beginning of the 20th cent should attract (attract) and govern the minds of readers throughout the world for aeons to come it is indubitable that the local colour - involving. The presentation of the mores a manners , the superstitions a rituals , the professions a livelihoods , the intimacies a agonies of the A . Islanders in an unindustrialized society should transfix this playing one location at one time. Yet the suffering of a bereaved mother, and the transformation of her character through the realization that it is not her specific tragedy but the tragedy of all mankind, her development from selfishness to selflessness, from ego-centralism to charity a humanity, finds a sympathetic chord in every human breast. The change in world - view, a desirable change for every human bring , makes it universal a journal."

How's that?