Outcome 3

OUTCOME3: UNSSEN TEXT- DRAMA (SHIRLEY VALENTINE BY WILLIE RUSSELL)

1. (A)In this extract the speaker’s attitude towards her own marriage is very negative she seems very unhappy. The marriages looks to be very unstable as she tell us that she has giving up on “arguing”. We get the impression that she feels trapped in the marriage “always said I’d leave him” but she has given up on finding happiness “nowhere to go”. She seems to have no power in the marriage and her husband likes to be in control “he like everything to be as it’s always been”.

(B) The speaker does not hate men but the classes them to be the same as her husband “I think most of them are the same”. She has the opinion that they are very lovely at the start of the relationship before any intimacy but when a man becomes familiar with a woman his behaviour changes and they no longer go out of their way to please or make their woman smile just like the milk tray man.

2. The evidence in this extract that shows that the writing is meant to be spoken aloud are the stage directions that are written outside the speaker’s voice. Words such as “pause “and “she laughs” indicate that the writing can be performed dramatically. The fact that the speaker askes questions during the conversation show also that the writing is clearly meant for a dramatic performance “oh his marvellous, isn’t he?”

3. Some of the evident that show that the extract is likely to have come from the beginning of the play is the dramatic opening line” oh God” this indicates to me that this is the beginning of the play as it makes me what to read further to find out what is happening also the fact that we are introduced to the characters although the speaker starts off by talking about “him” we are quickly told that him is her “feller” same follows when we are told about Jane “not like Jane. Jane’s my mate’. Lastly the number lining on the writing shows that the extract has been taken from the opening of the play as the play is numbered...