In this essay I will be looking at how Clark (the author) portrays Ken (the main character’s) anger gradually building up to the point where he cracks. Ken, who has been seriously injured in a road accident which left him paralyzed from the neck down, is in a position where he wants to be left to die but the law says he can’t. That makes him feel isolated and he feels like he is not in control of his own body. This topic is very relevant at the moment due to a local young rugby player being paralyzed after a rugby accident left him paralyzed. He decided to go and end his life in Switzerland where this option is legal.
Ken’s attitude to the nurses is quiet flirtatious and he seems a nice person, although he breaks down in emotion, I think the reader new that he couldn’t always be happy and it gives a bit of dramatic irony to the play. Clark shows a lot of Ken’s anger through the way he reacts or though sarcasm. Mrs. Boyle is a very work orientated person and when she talks to Ken she doesn’t talk to him as if she actually understands his position. She acts like this is the kind of problem that people can live with and carry on there lives as before. Clark purposely moulds Mrs Boyle into this character that seems to care but ends up whining her patients up and actually makes them feel like they are just another person that she has to deal with. This makes Ken depressed and this has a big role to play in the out burst.
