The Real Thing - Critical Review

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The Real Thing Critical Review                                                         

Reemphasizing certain recurring ideas found in two scenes in the book makes the audience think more in depth of the scenes. Repetition is a tool used in studying, and in this case it can help the reader remember and identify key themes in the book. The parallel scene such as scene one where it was a rehearsal and nine where it was the real thing sets infidelity as a reoccurring idea in the book which makes the reader pay more attention to it every next time it occurs.

Parallel scenes can act as foreshadowing or as a background to what happens in the real thing. Scene one is a parallel of scene nine with a similar ending. Scene one shows max and charlotte breaking up after an argument, and the future is bleak for both of them. Scene nine shows the same thing, and as a reader or watcher, you would recount scene one and foreshadow the result. However, in scene nine, it doesn’t stop where scene one ends, it continues. The anticipation of the result, after realizing what was supposed to happen, but isn’t ending in such a way, is even greater and grabs the reader’s attention and makes the play more enjoyable and interesting. It’s no longer just a straightforward play, it plays with the reader’s brain to provide suspense and increase interest.  It doesn’t matter how many times someone watches the play if every time, it is interesting to watch. Though the effect of suspense only surprises the reader the first time they read or watch the literature as they know what happens the next time.

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For someone watching the play for the first time, this slipping in and out, may actually confuse the audience, as conventional novels provokes us to follow the characters as it happens realistically. However, The Real Thing is different and to a first time reader or watcher, it is confusing. This confusion is less severe when I’m watching instead of reading. Watching is easier to follow because it uses visual and auditory effects such as movement, body language, tone of voice, music which all can be used to create a mood or to emphasize key actions such as shouting or kicking versus ...

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