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Summary Of Murmuring Judges Act 1 Scene 4
At the time of writing Murmuring Judges, the whole of Britain was under the terrifying cloud of the IRA. With bombings going off in both England and Ireland, people on both sides feared for their lives. In the eyes of most English people, the Irish were seen as terrorists or, at the very least, co-conspirators. Therefore, Hare saw it as crucial that he set the victim of the play as an Irishman, with the middle-England judiciary being the abusers. As we see in Act 1 Scene 4, Gerard McKinnon is being admitted to jail, with Beckett the prison guard guiding him.

As mentioned before, it seems to be that Gerard is being guided by Beckett. This is his first time being admitted to prison, as he readily admits, and seems like a child going to his

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