A Beautiful Thing coursework The character of Sandra has many good characteristics. One of these is her generosity. For example
A Beautiful Thing coursework The character of Sandra has many good characteristics. One of these is her generosity. For example she gives Ste five pounds to buy a present for Nolene. A quote that shows this would be "Ere buy Nolene a present wi' that". Whilst to use a fiver may not seem like much the chances are that to Sandra a single mum who works in a pub and lives in a flat in Thamesmeed (a poor area) a fiver would probably be quite a lot. Another of Sandra's good qualities would be her ambitions. For example she wants a job running a pub in Rotherhide. A quote that shows this characteristic would be "I'll be glad to get outta this bloody place". Her ambition is rare in that area very few people talk about moving up this is the slum were the people who are badly educated and poor live yet Sandra is different. Sandra also comes across as a very hard working character both at home and at work. For example she won barmaid of the year awards despite being a single parent and having to raise a child on her own. A quote that shows that Sandra is hardworking would be "This is my living and I'm bloody good at it". This again shows Sandra determination to do better she works hard and is very proud of what she achieves. Another of Sandra's good qualities would be the fact that she is very accepting. The main example of this would be when she accepts Jaime when he tells her that
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
Shirley Valentine Extra Scene
Joe and Shirley are sitting by the sea sipping wine and the waves are lapping at their feet. There is an uptight atmosphere as the sun begins to set. Joe I think you should come home strait away Shirley. I feel that you are not the same woman you have your head up in the clouds. Shirley I may have my head up in the clouds Joe but I'm happy high in the sky, I'm no longer that boring woman who spent all day looking after her husband I'm Shirley Valentine again. As the sun begins to set the camera pulls up to reveal a shadowed figure walking down Mykanos bay. As the shadowed figure gets closer, we are able to see it is Costas. Shirley looks up and tries to divert Joe. Shirley Come on Joe let me show you the sites you know you and me together. We could go see the windmills up on the hill or go see the small bay on the other side of the island. Joe You're a bloody loon Shirley you aint changed one bit. It's eight o' clock at night. Shirley I know but wouldn't it be romantic you and me under the stars sipping a carafe of wine together. Joe No it would not Shirley I have traveled all this way to find you and it's a Thursday so I want me tea now. Because its Thursday I want me usual steak and chips, don't think you have got away with it just because your in some backwards country, don't forget your vows Shirley Bradshaw when you married me you agreed to look after me in
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.
"Comedy is the best way for us to learn the truth aboutourselves" according to Willy Russell - What have you learnt during the course of the play and how is it a learning experience for the characters within it?
1th march 2003 "Comedy is the best way for us to learn the truth about ourselves" according to Willy Russell. What have you learnt during the course of the play and how is it a learning experience for the characters within it? Comedy covers many different types of humour such as comedians making old jokes and we laugh at him not with him or a comic TV programme which has us in hysterics. Our own concepts of humour are all different and in the play Shirley valentine there are many comic parts which the playwrite Willy Russell is trying to portray a moral "comedy is the best way for us to learn" so if you make a moral funny rather than serious we will learn from it quicker such as representing it in a joke or a funny comment then our minds will remember the funny part of it and use the moral in our own lives. In the play Shirley valentine there are many different concepts of showing humour and Willy Russell uses many of them to get across the moral that life is too short and you should snap up any opportunity you have to make something of your life "I've lived such a little life and even that will be over soon" There are many different techniques used to convey humour in the play and Willy Russell uses all of them very well. Ranges of one line comments are used to express how Shirley is feeling these techniques are know as verbal and visual humour sometimes Shirley would
How does Willy Russell address issues of gender in the extracts from 'Shirley Valentine'?
Task: How does Willy Russell address issues of gender in the extracts from 'Shirley Valentine'? The 1980's was a decade of reform from what was considered the expected roles of society. A major youth society emerged with more youths being independent from their older generations at an earlier age; this is signified by the masses of music written at the time aimed at the youth and the boost in nightclubs. Following the movements of the 70's and early 80's women's rights had been greatly changed; their roles in the work place had been widened, women now could take more senior positions as equals to the men unlike generations before where women would be housewives or be employed work which was seen as appropriately feminine at the time. Similarly roles in the relationships were changing; those women who were now full time worker in powerful positions could no longer look after the children and household as housewives, as was common in previous generations, instead it became more common for marriages and families to be formed late in life, for relationships where the roles of the housewife would be shared between both husband and wife or even for the husband to assume the role as a househusband. It is here in this time where Willy Russell sets his play 'Shirley Valentine'. The play is a monologue from the character Shirley, a middle aged woman, the wife of Joe, a believer that a
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How does Russell encourage the audience to feel sympathy for Shirley Valentine? 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. In this essay I will answer the question by using quotations to back up my ideas, analysing the language that is used, commenting on the Shirley Valentine and the themes of the screenplay also linking the context to my ideas throughout my essay. The author of Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell was born in Whiston, Liverpool. He left school at the age of 16 (similar to Shirley) with 1 'o' level. He went into hairdressing but always dreamed of being a writer.
How does Willy Russell invite the audience to sympathise with Shirley?
Shirley Valentine (Course Work), Ehssan Al-Thamir How does Willy Russell invite the audience to sympathise with Shirley? Willy Russell presents the screen play Shirley Valentine as a drama to express family relationships and emotional feelings among different family members. Willy Russell chose the characters and dramatic devices in a way to show those expressive moods. Willy Russell utilized flashbacks as remarkable techniques for the audience to understand Shirley Valentine's preceding life. Willy Russell was born in Liverpool and left school at the age of sixteen similar to Shirley. He went into hairdressing but always dreamed of being a writer. The story is based on the term 'kitchen-sink drama which usually ends unhappily and has a more realistic representation of a social life. First scenes of the film show different water-colour, mainly blue, drawings of Shirley at different times, which may perhaps represent hopelessness and grief. Most of the sketches show Shirley doing housework, very bored and lonely housewife. Willy Russell employed many dramatic devices to present Shirley Valentine as a very ordinary, working class middle aged housewife. Dramatic devices such as the deliberate choice of the Liverpool accent and the monologue when Shirley talks to the wall were selected intentionally to highlight her utter loneliness and maybe even lack of confidence and
Shirley Valentine. How Does Russell Invite the Audience to Sympathise with Shirley?
Year 10 Shirley Valentine Essay How Does Russell Invite the Audience to Sympathise with Shirley? Willy Russell wrote the play 'Shirley Valentine', which reflected very much on his life. The play develops around one central character, Shirley, a middle aged housewife. The audience first meets Shirley sadly reflecting on her life because she hasn't had such a great life. The play shows how the leading character changes dramatically throughout the course of the play. From a lonely but cynical dependant human being Shirley becomes an independent woman. As the play progresses, the audience hears about Shirley's dream of going away somewhere. Her dream becomes a reality as she travels to Greece with her best friend Jane and away from her family. This essay is going to answer the question 'How Does Russell Invite the Audience to Sympathise with Shirley?' Russell invites us to sympathise for Shirley in a variety of ways. For example when Shirley talks to the wall "Hello Wall" this shows loneliness because she has no-one to talk to. Shirley then turns to the camera asking "Well what's wrong with that?" as if what she was doing was perfectly normal. Another way in which we sympathise for Shirley is when she talks about her relationship with Joe when they were young "He used to laugh, Joe. We both did" showing that their life has become much quieter for both of them and they are
By What Means Does Willy Russell Engage Our Sympathy For Shirley In The Opening Part Of The Play?
By What Means Does Willy Russell Engage Our Sympathy For Shirley In The Opening Part Of The Play? In the opening part of the play feeling sympathy for Shirley is a regular occurrence expressed through loneliness, regret, unhappiness and humour. This only being a minority of the feelings Shirley feels. We find Shirley to be a humorous and genile person looking for a more easyer and comfortable way of life. We feel sympathy for Shirley when her sadness is expressed as insecurity. "Even though her name was changed to Bradshaw she was still Shirley Valentine." This shows how she was changed into something she did not want to be and how she regrets marrying Joe. Shirley has an ability to make humour out of what may be at discomfort to her. Maybe the marriage to Joe is an example of this. Shirley's life becomes jaded and boring, as her life seemed to go down hill after marrying Joe. "They say don't they...I felt like that at twenty-five". It seems as though Shirley was cheated out fifteen years in her life, which creates sympathy for Shirley. Shirley finds it hard to make friends and to socialize with others. "I haven't known Jane all that long, but she's great." Shows this and Shirley is troubled when she hears that Jane is going to Greece for two weeks. Shirley was accused of being a cheat at school when she was not. "YOU, she yelled you must have been told that answer." This