How Does Willy Russell Make Scenes 5 And 35 Effective In

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Jeffrey Mattingley 10Y

How Does Willy Russell Make Scenes 5 And 35 Effective In “Our Day Out”?

Willy Russell’s “Our Day Out” is a comedy for Television with serious messages. The two scenes 5 and 35 are effective because they show different styles of Briggs. The atmosphere changes rapidly from the early scenes to the later scenes. It starts off as a quiet normal living atmosphere to a noisy coach trip until then end of the storyline. The way Willy Russell writes makes a big impact on the audience because of his change in atmosphere and the way he makes Mr Brigg’s lines play the nasty teacher is very important to the story line and makes the story very much more interesting for the audience. From the start of the story to the end of the story, the audiences views on Mr Brigg’s change. Scenes 5 and 35 reveal a lot about Mr Brigg’s personality.

The cultural setting of the play is very important to the story line. The play is based in the 1970’s in Liverpool. Liverpool was a town of high unemployment and very run down. There were many social problems and they had a big manufacturing industry. Liverpool was and is very well known for Football and in Music with bands such as the Beatles originating from Liverpool. Mrs Kay describes the area on which the students have been brought up in in many of her quotes when talking to Mr Brigg’s about why she is going to give them a nice day out “These children are born for factory work”, “There’s nothing to do for them around here, any of them”. I think Willy Russell’s message is that at the time Liverpool was a city of no hope and no ambition and that all students apart from the lucky ones could have no hope because they were born for factory work or other low paid work.

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In scene 5 the audience get to meet Mr. Briggs. There first impressions would be of a nasty and strict teacher, we know this by some of the quotes he uses “Sit down, now, come on move!” This makes him sound bossy but also at the same time very formal. Mr Brigg’s throughout the story line remains strict, formal and bossy but does show emotion towards the end of the story where he decides to take the students to the fair. His change of personality came mainly because of the actions of Carol near the end of the story.

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