Essay planning for characters and relationships for Absurd Person
Once you've done this you have the broad framework for essays for any character or relationship pairing.
THEN, for each of the above, do these:
3. Explain what this tells us about the character/the relationship/the event
4. Make notes on whether and how this shows comedy (physical, verbal, farce, sexual innuendo) or pathos
5. Audience response (superiority, schadenfreude, awkwardness, shock, recognition of own prejudice, shame, guilt)
6. Theoretical application: Absurdist (life sucks and then you die so laugh at the ridiculousness of existence); Existentialist (life is full of stupid rules so challenge them and live on your own terms); Conformist (you can only find happiness and success by conforming to social expectations); Class/Social status/Marxist (the elite are ignorant fools whose success is built on the sweat of the working class – up the workers!); Gender/Feminism (gender roles are false constructs enforced by the controlling hierarchy, women are oppressed by the patriarchy).
Basically your interesting point = topic sentence
1)Evidence (dialogue, stage directions, props/costumes, performance) and should have some linkage with each other where possible
2)Techniques - analysis
3)Explanation
4) Comedy/Pathos and Audience = Dramatic effect
5)Audience = more dramatic effect, leading into Ayckbourn’s purprose
6)Theory/Critical Thinking/Ayckbourn’s purprose
- Find 3 INTERESTING things about EACH character
- Find/combine some of the solo character aspects: 3 INTERESTING things about each couple
Once you've done this you have the broad framework for essays for any character or relationship pairing.
THEN, for each of the above, do these:
- Go through the play and find KILLER EVIDENCE to support each of those 3 interesting ideas:
- Dialogue (from or about each character)
- Stage directions
- Props (eg the soda syphon), costumes (eg Marion’s negligée), performance (eg a performance where the audience sees the fragility and pain on a character’s face but the rest of the characters do not).
3. Explain what this tells us about the character/the relationship/the event
4. Make notes on whether and how this shows comedy (physical, verbal, farce, sexual innuendo) or pathos
5. Audience response (superiority, schadenfreude, awkwardness, shock, recognition of own prejudice, shame, guilt)
6. Theoretical application: Absurdist (life sucks and then you die so laugh at the ridiculousness of existence); Existentialist (life is full of stupid rules so challenge them and live on your own terms); Conformist (you can only find happiness and success by conforming to social expectations); Class/Social status/Marxist (the elite are ignorant fools whose success is built on the sweat of the working class – up the workers!); Gender/Feminism (gender roles are false constructs enforced by the controlling hierarchy, women are oppressed by the patriarchy).
Basically your interesting point = topic sentence
1)Evidence (dialogue, stage directions, props/costumes, performance) and should have some linkage with each other where possible
2)Techniques - analysis
3)Explanation
4) Comedy/Pathos and Audience = Dramatic effect
5)Audience = more dramatic effect, leading into Ayckbourn’s purprose
6)Theory/Critical Thinking/Ayckbourn’s purprose