Pozzo & Lucky's Relationship in "Waitng for Godot".
Pozzo & Lucky’s Relationship During the two character’s appearance in act 1 we learn a lot about both characters through the relationship they have with each other. While Lucky’s lack of speech under Pozzo’s domain makes it difficult to identify his personality, we can still infer a lot about him. ‘Pig’, ‘hog’ and ‘swine’. All abusive vocatives thrown at Lucky by Pozzo. An instant indication that the relationship between these two characters is far from friendly, and makes the relationship between Vladimir and Estragon seem certainly pleasant. It is clear that Lucky acts as a type of servant to Pozzo and this is clarified when he attempts to describe their relationship in the quote “He wants to mollify me, so that I'll give up the idea of parting with him”. It is instantly clear that Pozzo’s character is extremely arrogant. He lords over the others, and he is decisive, powerful, and confident. When his character is introduced he refers to the other two as human, but as inferior beings; then he condescendingly acknowledges that there is a human likeness, even though the "likeness is an imperfect one." This image reinforces his authoritarian god-like stance. Pozzo's superiority is also seen in the manner in which he eats the chicken, and then casts the bones to Lucky with an air of complete omnipotence. Yet there are several quotes after he becomes
Act 1, Scene 4 of Murmuring Judges. Discuss Hares presentation of the prison system in the scene, and in the play as a whole.
Question 2: Reed Act 1, Scene 4 of Murmuring Judges. Discuss Hare’s presentation of the prison system in the scene, and in the play as a whole. ‘The treatment of offenders was demeaning, unsafe and fell below what could be classed as decent.’ This quote has been taken from a 2011 independent HM inspector report of Wandsworth Prison. The aforementioned quote shows that there is little difference between the current prison system and the social context of the 1980’s prison system, which is the backdrop of Hare’s fictional play. Unfortunately, this is a sad in indictment of the present day prison system which has barely changed in the past twenty years. In this context, in Act 1, scene 4 we see the character of Gerard’s first impressions of the prison system. We previously saw the character of Gerard in Act 1, scene 1; when Mc Kinnon, and two other men were convicted of a warehouse robbery. He now faces the first moments of his four year custodial sentence. Hare’s stage directions create the impression that the building is an old, overcrowded, Victorian prison. The playwright evokes that feeling in the act’s opening stage directions: ‘we move into a gloomy, enormous space’ and ‘with a gigantic door discernible at the back.’ By the use of the adjectives, ‘gloomy’ and ‘enormous’, this demonstrates the feeling that the prison is a
Hare uses juxtaposition throughout Murmuring Judges to show the seemingly inherent differences in class between the lawyers and the prisoners
Discuss how Hare presents ideas about class in this scene and at least one other point in the play. Within Hare’s play Murmuring Judges, there almost appears to be two class systems. The first is the standard upper, middle and lower, however, Hare almost separates the prisoners, the police and the lawyers as three separate classes of people, who each look down on the class below them. This allows us to see not only the perceived separations of social classes but also the classes that you are put into according to you profession and the classist attitudes held by those above. In the focus scene, Hare clearly shows his views about class through implications and connotations used in the lawyers and judges conversations. Immediately as the scene starts, “His Excellency AL Hadji Sulay Ibrahim Dunko” is announced by the toast master. Whereas within the perceived lower class of the police, DC Abdul Khan is referred to as Jimmy, here he is announced with his full name and title, which immediately suggests a difference in class and status between the two men. This is also clearly shown in the language used by all the characters in this scene, as phrases such as “Grand Days” and “the fishy stuff” in reference to caviar creates a semantic field which suggests the men view themselves and believe they are viewed by others as upper class. Furthermore, the juxtaposition of
Our Day Out
Our Day Out By Willy Russell Looking particularly at scenes 21 and 31, explain the serious message that Willy Russell tries to give us about the education and social deprivation. How does he use key characters and settings in order to do this? "Our Day Out" is a funny play but it also has some serious points. It tells us the story of a group of students who are taken on a day trip to Conwy castle in Wales. This play was written in 1977 by Willy Russell. It was set outside a school in Liverpool. With a group of students going on a school trip to Conwy castle in Wales. Mrs Kay was in charge of this trip, she is easy -going and motherly person. The headmaster then sends Mr Briggs along with them who is a much stricter teacher. They set of to Conwy castle and on they way end up going to other places as well. The café, zoo, Conwy castle and the beach. Throughout the day Mr Briggs continues to battle between himself and Mrs Kay over the behaviour of the students. They finish of the trip by going to the funfair where Mr Briggs mood changes and everyone is surprised. Mrs Kay took pictures of this day, she wasn't going to let Mr Briggs forget the day he was happy. Education in the 1970's was different from now. In 1970 students were able to leave school at the age of fifteen and find a job. Students would do there 11+ exam to go onto secondary school. There was a class for
The Truman Show
Describe a character or individual in the text that you either admired OR disliked. Explain how verbal and / or visual features in the text were used to make you admire or dislike the character or individual. The Truman Show is a comedy-drama directed by Peter Weir and casted by Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank. In the movie, Truman discovers that he has been filmed and watched by millions of people on a television show around world since he was born. Truman has developed in a positive way throughout the movie and he is a significant character in The Truman Show. Truman is a funny and spontaneous person because he is unaware that he is being watched and captured by thousands of hidden cameras around the city. On the contrary, Christof, the producer in The Truman Show movie sets everything up especially for him and tries his best to keep Truman in his utopia, Seahaven. It is a perfect world where Truman traps in and his whole life has been manipulated by someone else. In the beginning, Truman always says "In case I don't see ya: good afternoon, good evening and good night." without doubt that he is being filmed and says it because that is who and how he is. Throughout the movie, Truman slowly develops his own awareness about his life. He starts to predict things such as "I predict in just a moment you will see a lady on a red bike followed by a man with flowers and a Volkswagen