How Shirley changes in coarse of the play, and how the play is organized to show the importance of these changes?
Essay- How Shirley changes in coarse of the play, and how the play is organized to show the importance of these changes? The screenplay "Shirley Valentine" is written by Willy Russell and is set in Liverpool and Greece. It tells the story of a middle aged women who is sadly reflecting on her life as the bored and fed up housewife, and the various opportunities she let go when she was growing up as a teenager in Liverpool. It is mainly about how Shirley feels about her life and how she feels about her married life, how it is so boring and monotonous. We see in flashbacks what her life was like before marriage and at the start of marriage. She had a dream to travel around the world as an airhostess and so she regrets giving up her education. Later as she gets the bravery she takes her chance to go to Greece and she builds up her self-esteem. She takes the opportunity to go and change her life. In this essay I'm going to write about how Shirley changes in coarse of play and how the structure shows the importance of these changes. Shirley was a very lonely women, I noticed that as soon as I read the first page... "Hello wall", this showed me that she didn't have any one around her to talk to or no one to turn to; Shirley was alone. I think that was an important line to start the play with because it gave me a hint about Shirley's life, it also kept me in suspense about what
How does Shirley change in the course of the play and how is the play organised to show the importance of these changes.
HOW DOES SHIRLEY CHANGE IN THE COURSE OF THE PLAY AND HOW IS THE PLAY ORGANISED TO SHOW THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE CHANGES. BY DHARMESH BHUDIA "Shirley Valentine" was primarily written as a monologue to express the emotions of a bored middle-aged housewife. The monologue was originally performed by the actress Pauline Collins. The monologue was adapted by Willy Russell and converted into a screenplay. Willy Russell kept most of the original devices such as the voiceovers and the flashbacks to narrate the story. Furthermore he added other character to the screenplay. Willy Russell was born in Liverpool in 1974 and left school at the age of fifteen. The play had some resemblance on Russell's childhood and the surroundings he was brought up in. "Shirley Valentine" is the journey of a tedious middle-aged housewife who try's to break away from her inescapable routine, lifeless marriage. She is trying to find her true self. She is searching for 'Shirley Valentine'. The purpose of this essay is to analyse the changes that Shirley goes through in the course of the play and how Willy Russell illustrates the importance of these changes. Willy Russell perceptively uses cinematic device to help the audience understand what Shirley is going through and to help us as the audience and reader to sympathise with her. Using techniques such as flashbacks and conversing to the audience makes us
How do the dramatic techniques used in the play help the audience to understand Shirley's transformation?
How do the dramatic techniques used in the play help the audience to understand Shirley's transformation? In 'Shirley Valentine' playwright Willy Russell conveys the transformation of a disheartened and lonesome middle aged women going through a period of slow awakening, and along the way having to look after her rather insular and unappreciative husband. We see a bright young girl who has vast amounts of self belief and ability within herself, gradually are diminishing away from her very eyes. Russell uses various dramatic devices, which is pivotal towards portraying change, such as Flashbacks, dramatic monologue and setting. Willy Russell, an acknowledged playwright, has written several plays, one of which is 'Shirley Valentine'. Russell bases the narrative around the life and transformation of Shirley. The fact that Willy Russell was born in Liverpool and grew up in the 1960's. This very fact could give him a coarse sight into Liverpool suburbia, where the play in set. Willy Russell left school at the age of 15, which gives him an idea of life without educational qualifications. Throughout six years of his career he was the owner of a hair salon, which tremendously influenced the play; For instance, he was constantly around 'working class women' which gave him a natural instinct of how these ladies were day in day out. Unfortunately he only managed to obtain one 'O'
How does the dramatic technique used in the play help the audience to understand the importance of Shirleys transformation?
How does the dramatic technique used in the play help the audience to understand the importance of Shirley's transformation? Shirley Bradshaw the main character in the play is a housewife in a working class environment. Unable to stand the monotonous lifestyle she is forced to live in she embarks on a journey to rediscover herself. She does this by going to Greece, searching for a new life and adventure. Willy Russell uses dramatic techniques to symbolise the importance of Shirley's transformation. He uses devices such as voiceovers, flashbacks, dramatic monologue and humour these help portray Shirley's opinions, beliefs and it also helps by finding her aspiration. By the end of the screen play the audience will see Shirley as a woman who has fulfilled her dreams and achievement as she no longer will be the depressed dutiful house wife. Similarly Willy Russell was born into a working class family like Shirley. He was born in Liverpool in the year 1974. He left school at the age of fifteen much like the character of Shirley, who also left school early because she had no hopes in her academic career. This may have been due to stereotypical views that came with living in Liverpool in the 1960s especially for working class people. Another reason can be that students from working class families were not encouraged to pursue their academic careers. Russell had an opportunity to
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No-one thought she had the nerve, the courage or the lingerie. Does this accurately reflect the character of Shirley Valentine? The play Shirley Valentine is written by Willy Russell and it is about her path to self-discovery. Shirley Bradshaw, who was known as Shirley Valentine, is a bored middle-aged housewife living in Liverpool in a small semi-detached house. Shirley who lives with her husband Joe is now in her early forties, with her children having now left her, she feels unhappy and unfulfilled. By the end of the play we see Shirley has changed and she is no longer bore, that her life is full of excitement as she has gone to Greece and met a man. All throughout the play we see Willy Russell use different dramatic techniques. At the start we see her talking to herself, to us the audience. He does this to show us what Shirley is thinking and feeling, which is that she is very lonely even though she has a husband. At the beginning of the play we see Shirley first talk; we see her talking to the wall, "Hello Wall". This shows us that she is so bored out of her mind that she resorts to talking to the wall. As she is talking to the wall this shows the audience that she is very lonely and this makes the audience sympathetic to Shirley. Another technique that the author uses in the play is that as this play is a monolog it is only herself talking and there is no-one else,
Traditions in "The lottery" by Shirley Jackson.
Traditions "The lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a story about a community that has a tradition. The tradition is when the community gets to gather once every year for the lottery. The head of the household (men) is present with a peace of paper to see who when the lottery. But everyone is not treated equal the lottery is a barbaric tradition, false assumption of a lottery, and has an argument. "The Lottery", is the annual ceremony in which the inhabitants of a small village draw lots to determine who will be stoned to death that year. This story is replete with symbolism, symbolism reflecting the dichotomy of humanity, the good and the evil of mankind. "The Lottery," Its Social Order and Male Superiority Issue As much as we would like to believe that men and women are viewed as equals in our society, often times we are disappointed. "The Lottery" describes a town's people who gathered on an ordinary summer day to perform a sacrificial ceremony village of any sense of noncompliance to its male governing hierarchical order making Tessie Hutchinson an unwitting sacrifice to serve the purpose of safeguarding the positions of capital is patriarchs. . It seems ridiculous that a community would cling to such a barbaric tradition, especially when they don't even know the correct way to do the lottery. The False Assumptions of a Lottery, the thought of a lottery, brings to mind the
How does Willy Russell succeed in creating a believable and appealing character in his Heroine, for the play Shirley Valentine
How does Willy Russell succeed in creating a believable and appealing character in his Heroine, for the play Shirley Valentine The play entitled Shirley Valentine was written by Willy Russell who also wrote a play called Educating Rita. Shirley Valentine was written at the end of 1990, in November. It is set in Liverpool and Greece. Willy Russell uses many different ways to show the small and big changes in Shirley's life. For example Willy uses a normal kitchen wall (which is the main prop of the play) that Shirley uses quite a lot in the beginning of the play. Shirley talks to it like a normal person she always says "Don't I wall" expecting some sort of answer. She talks about the kind of day she has had and who she has met to this wall. She asked all sorts of questions to the audience, and audience answers the questions but in there heads, she asks rhetorical questions. Shirley's main dream is to go to Greece. Shirley is seen as a normal house wife, with two children that have left home, she has a husband, and she always sticks to her routine, for example she always cooks her husband Egg and Chips on Tuesday and Steak on Thursday. Shirley lives in a small semi-detached house with a small front garden. Also at the beginning of the play depict the scenes show Shirley doing her domestic activities such as cleaning, making beds and gardening. When she walks into the house
How do the dramatic techniques use in the play help the audience to understand the importance of Shirley's transformation? You should refer to the significance of the play's social and historical (settings, attitudes to women
SHIRLEY VALENTINE TASK: HOW DO THE DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES USE IN THE PLAY HELP THE AUDIENCE TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF SHIRLEY'S TRANSFORMATION? YOU SHOULD REFER TO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PLAY'S SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL (SETTINGS, ATTITUDES TO WOMEN, ATTITUDES TO MARRIAGE, EXPECTATIONS OF LIFE, ETC) CONTEXT AND THE LITERARY CONTEXT (KITCHEN-SINK DRAMA, COMEDY, TRAGEDY, DRAMA, ETC). The play 'Shirley Valentine' was written by Willy Russell. Russell was born in 1976, near Liverpool. He left school when he was fifteen and did a variety of jobs before becoming a writer. Originally he used to be a songwriter, performing in his late teens. By the time he was twenty he decided to become a playwright rather than his desired option of teaching. In his first eighteen months schools loved his work and he decided that he was successful enough to do it fulltime. "Shirley Valentine", is the story of a middle age woman living in Liverpool and her change in life. Russell explores the usage of different dramatic techniques to tell a complex story. We the audience are in contact with Shirley from the beginning, because she talks to the camera. This forms a friendship between Shirley and the audience. We become her confidante. Other dramatic techniques used by the playwright are the use of Flashbacks and Voiceovers. In flashbacks Shirley would be doing something and would drift off talking
How does Willy Russell use dramatic devices to allow the audience to see many different sides of Shirley
Shirley Valentine How does Willy Russell use dramatic devices to allow the audience to see many different sides of Shirley Valentine's personality? Willy Russell is the playwright of Shirley Valentine. The play develops around one central character, Shirley, a housewife from Liverpool. The audience first meet Shirley sadly reflecting on her life. The play shows how the leading character changes dramatically throughout the course of the play. The first half of the play sees Shirley as a lonely but cynical, dependent human being. As the play progresses, the audience hears about Shirley's dream. Shortly after her dream becomes reality. In the second half of the play, Shirley finds herself on a Greek island, away from her husband, Joe. Shirley's character begins to change as she meets Costas. She becomes independent and confident. Willy Russell uses many dramatic devices in this story to develop the character of Shirley Valentine. Perhaps the most obvious one, which is shown all the way through the story, is the use of monologue to tell the story and all the characters and their personalities are introduced through Shirley Valentine. This technique of writing is used to highlight the fact that she is a very bored, lonely housewife. The Liverpudlian accent chosen deliberately by the author represents a working class middle aged housewife. This is another dramatic device to show
A Comparison between Billy Liar and Shirley Valentine
A Comparison between Billy Liar and Shirley Valentine I have just been studying Billy Liar and performing it as part of my mock scripted drama GCSE, and have been asked to compare this theatre script to the film script of Shirley Valentine. I have already given the first difference between these two scripts; one is a theatre script and the other is designed specifically for the big screen. Billy Liar was originally a novel written by Keith Waterhouse, who with the help of Willis Hall made it into a theatre script in the 1960's. Billy is an imaginative youth who is fighting to get out of his complacent, cliché-ridden background. He was born and brought up in a town in Yorkshire and lives with his father, Geoffrey, mother, Alice, and grandmother, Florence. Billy has three girlfriends, Rita, Barbara and Liz, but he only shows genuine affection and feelings towards Liz. Billy is always fantasising and making up things which earns him the label 'liar'. At the end of the play Billy decides to leave his home and follow Liz to London but as we find out in the last scene he 'chickens' out and returns to the home he so desperately wants to escape. Shirley Valentine on the other hand was written as a film script, by the author Willy Russell in the 1980's, but the story is very similar to that of Billy Liar. Shirley is a housewife and mother to two grown up children.