Discuss and analyze the dramatic impact you feel the setting of the two selected plays has upon characters and audiences
Discuss and analyze the dramatic impact you feel the setting of the two selected plays has upon characters and audiences. How far would you agree that ‘ The Accrington Pals’ by Peter Whelan is far more believable portrayal of working class society of that time than the representation of the middle and upper class presented in the dugout in ‘Journeys End’ by R.C. Sheriff?
Journeys End is a play in which is set in 1918 in a dugout in St Quentin when war was coming to an end. It was then performed in 1928 when people seemed to be ready for a change in society. The play was based on real experiences from R.C Sheriffs perspective, as he was an officer in World War One thus we can understand his portrayal of the horrors of war. While in Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan it focuses on the effects of the war that it has on women and the two different ideologies one being entrepreneurial and socialism. The production was set in 1916 during the Battle of Somme, but was in fact written in 1981. Accrington Pals setting at the home front is representative of the working class at the time despite it being written in 1981. The context has much more realistic portrayal. However in Journeys End is excluded, as the predominant of the men are officers are from middle or upper class backgrounds.