Directed by Neil Jordan, The Butcher Boy is about a young boy from the 1960s. Growing up in a small town of Ireland called Clones; the boy, Francie Brady goes through some disturbing problems in his childhood. Throughout his childhood he was exposed to a lot of television on which he saw content related to aliens, communism and atomic wars. He was not given the attention parents give their children in the growing age; his father was an alcoholic, resulting in his mother having a nervous breakdown. Francie would spend most of his time with his friend Joe, spending most of his time in a playhouse by the river talking and living in a world of fantasy and fiction. His mother eventually passes away, this affects him a lot and eventually he ends up in a youth home where he is molested by the priest who dresses the boy like a girl. Francie's father passes away and the boy returns to working at a butcher shop handling pig carcasses. The boy fantasizes about the depletion of the human race by a nuclear disaster since there was an imminent threat of Doomsday, a nuclear strike with the power to wipe out the entire planet.
Tradition and Modernity
The terms tradition and modernity work in relation with one another. Modernity works as the economic and social tool to achieve wealth, flexibility, and innovation for either individuals or groups. On the other hand, tradition functions as an inner conscious state which produces the sensation of broader connections and stability in the face of massive social change over the last half-century. Modernity refers to the rise of a nation. During this period, post the world war Ireland was going through all the elements of modernity; urbanization, industrialization, nationalism(White, 2010, pp. 21-37). ...
