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4.0
The quare fellow, a condemned murderer who butchered his brother like a pig, is due to be hanged in the morning. Does he deserve the death penalty? Behan doesn't bring him on stage, so we aren't required to vilify or sympathise with him directly. What we are shown is the brutalising effect of capital punishment on those most closely involved in carrying out the sentence. Behan shows (not without humour) how we are all degraded by state murder.
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