Yosser, on the other hand is total opposite, he is so not a hero, and unfortunately he is the “loser” often weak and sometimes violent. Yosser is an untidy, scruffy person who has no job; no direction in life, his wife left him.Yosser is unemployed. Even though Yosser might be a loser he still maintains a strong bond with his three children. There is an unconditional love between them. Yosser fears he may lose his children, he never lets them out of his sight. The children are an integral part of Yosser’s life. Even though Yosser might be a loser he still maintains a strong bond with his three children. There is an unconditional love between them. Yosser fears he may lose his children; he never lets them out of his sight. The children are an integral part of Yosser’s life. The state of Yosser house is disgusting. The kitchen floor is dirty, greasy and smelly. Burnt frying pans laden the sink they are left unwashed and dirty. The food dropped onto the floor is mouldy.
Yosser does not send his children to school; He keeps them with him all day. This is against the law, and it could be interpreted as Yosser setting a bad example to his children, and not being a good role model. There is no doubt that Yosser loves his children and it is difficult for him having no education and no job.
Yosser constantly uses bad language. This is also not acceptable as children are impressionable and Yosser is setting a bad example. The children could copy him as they might think because Yosser is an adult that is acceptable to use bad language and it is not really sociably acceptable, consequently his children, should they be influenced by him would turn out to be no better than him. The communication between Yosser and his children is very poor, as the children follow Yosser they say barely a word they just follow him. Yosser experiences difficulty communicating. At the beginning of the play we find Yosser in the Department of Unemployment where he stares blankly at the Clerk as the Clerk tries desperately to attract Yosser’s attention by repeating his name, The Clerk does this many times but Yosser stares blankly at him. Yosser said bye and walks away.
Yosser follows Maureen, grabbing her and pushing her up against a lamp post. He brings his head back in a motion to head butt her, Maureen moves and Yosser head butts the lamppost. It hurt his quite bad as he yelled out. Do you have a good Dentist?” Yosser asks the Electrician as he comes to turn of Yosser’s electricity. Yosser is very violent towards him when he is only trying to do his job. Yosser does not comprehend this. Maureen is thought to be something of a liar, her speech in the interview room was almost like it was planned, after she had finished her interview she asked “is that enough” as if is that enough to get his children taken from him.
But I really do feel bad Yosser because he has nothing. Maureen has turned against him by lying in the interview room, and the scar face police man and his colleagues beat him up quite badly till he no strength left.
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Yosser takes his children to the pub. The Landlord of the pub says to Yosser “ Sorry Yosser – No children in here”. Yosser once again just stares blankly. The Landlord feels intimidated and lets them stay. Yosser sits next to Grame Souness and says “You look like me” Graeme looks at Yosser and replies “right”.
In one scene of the play we see the scar faced Policeman. The scare faced Policeman is a patronising, impatient hypocrite who loves being in control. In the scene he arrives at Yosser’s home. The Policeman breaks in and beats Yosser black and blue. The Policeman appears to take enjoyment from this and grins as if he is having a good day. The Social Workers look on with disgust.
Yosser is left there as they take his children. The scar faced Policeman thinks he is so much more superior than anyone else.
The Policeman is very sarcastic towards the Social Worker, he speaks to them in a condescending way as if they do not know how to do their jobs.
The scar on his face could denote that he is an aggressive man.
At the end of the scene the policemen and scar face are hiding behind a car screaming as a little boy fires an air gun at them.
One hits scar face in the bottom and he screams out, this shows that scar face isn’t as big as he thinks.
Symbolism is a technique which is used through out the play. Symbolism is also a visual element. We see it all through Yossers life. In the play Yosser just gets worse and worse as he moves on in life. Yosser loses his wife, children, his home, he loses everything! At the beginning of the video and play it shows Yosser having a dream of losing his children and all of his once good friends turn against him. Yosser is left with nothing by the end and finally gives up Yosser tries to kill him self in the same lake he had the dream in but police men pull him out just in time, Yosser is broken to bits and home or family to come home to.
Yosser and his three children walk towards the lake fully clothed. They cling to Yosser. Yosser takes them under the surface. When they resurface he finds that the youngest child has not come up from under the water. Yosser cries out “Dustin! Dustin! Dustin!” there is no response, one of his children has disappeared then he notices that his second child Ann Marie has disappeared, finally Jason disappears. This sad event symbolises Yosser finally losing his children.
People row pass Yosser who paddles hopelessly in the water, Maureen and Loggo, this shows that the people in the boats are once Yossers close friends. Gorge is being rowed by a person with his back turned to us, this shows Gorge doesn’t control his life any more.
Moey is rowing Maureen’s boat showing that Moey is in control of Maureen. Maureen just misses Yosser as she rows pass him. It is almost like Maureen tried to hit Yosser under the water, to get rid of him or even to kill him.
All though through out the story it seems that there in a constant barrier in front of Yosser and anyone he wants to communicate with. Yosser is almost like he is insulated.Yosser says that he used to build sand castles, then he said that ‘that’s all he has ever done’ almost saying that he is a sand castle getting bushed away over and over.Yosser finds himself in a lot of different problems. By this time Yosser has lost his wife he house and his children. Yosser is left with nothing. Yosser is a typical anti-hero, the main characters but he is how just another person in the play. Yosser struggles to even to even identify himself, he has a false identity crisis, and he doesn’t know who he is.
At the end Bleasdale really tries to emphasise the misfortune that Yosser has come across. Bleasdale really shows what unemployment is really like. Bleasdale has a good understanding of unemployment.