Intro paragraph practice No. 1 - Paper 2

[iain melville]

Upload both your introduction and your frame (topic sentences) for
homework.

[wong alex]

2) Consider the ways in which scene changes may highlight the
development of the characters and their relationship in two or three
plays you have studied.

Introductory Paragraph
Time manipulation and typical three-act division are used in Thornton
Wilder’s “Our Town” while motifs are used in Henrik’s Ibsen’s “A
doll’s house” to highlight the development of characters and their
relationship. In “Our Town”, time manipulation is crucial since it
helps to reverse the plot which allows characters to reflect upon
their lives and to also allow them to realize the worth of each
details of life. Moreover, the typical three-act divison allows
audience to realize more about daily life issues. On the contrary, the
use of motifs, such as: letter, indeed emphasize the ignorance of
Torvald and strengthen the guiltiness of Nora and the other motif
which is the fire place foreshadows that the relationship between
Torvald and Nora will eventually break down. Furthermore, these uses
of time manipulation and motifs in these two plays not only help to
create tension, but also provide a strong emotional impact for the
audience.

Topic Sentences

(a)Wilder’s use of time manipulation in “Our Town” not allows
audiences to see a replay of the protagonist’s past but also put
audience into the protagonist’s position, this indeed let the
audiences to experienced the development of the protagonists

(b) Wilder’s extensive use of typical three-act division as the basic
structure of the play which reflects that the human life and
relationship flow along in a normal pattern. Moreover, these also
render the picture of everyday activities which lead to the
development of character.

(c) On the contrary, Ibsen’s use of motifs in “A doll’s house” shows
the unpleasant nature of situation obscured by Torvald and Nora. In
other words, it foreshadows their relationship will eventually break
down.

Evidence

(a) Death of Emily has led her to realize the worth of each details in
life

(b) Simon regrets for wasting his life on alcohol, describing life as
“cloud of ignorance. at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or
another“

(c) Town manager narrates simple facts about the town; then, the
milkman and paper boy make their rounds; later, two children return
home from school

(d)Letter written by Krogstad: (i) 1st letter reveals Nora’s crime;
(ii) Retracts Torvald blackmail threat and returns Nora’s promissory
note.

Technical Language

(i) Motifs
(ii) Time Manipulation
(iii) Tension
(iv) Character development
(v) Foreshadowing
(vii) Highlight
(viii) Reveals
(viiii) reinforces

[Christopher Chow]

2007 Paper 2 

1.b Consider the ways in which scene changes may highlight the development of the character and their relationship in two or three plays. 

Introduction 

In A Doll's House, Ibsen arranges scene changes through the use of motifs, ⎯ the use of letters and mails, structural devices ⎯ the orthodox three act plays and characters' tone to significantly portray the fragile relationship between Nora and Torvald. Likwise, in Our Town, Wilder shifts scenes primarily through the use o structural device ⎯ stage manager as well as the recurring song of each act "blessed be the tie that binds" to ultimately contrast Emily's relationship with "Groover's Corner" before and after her death. Both playwrites apply identical devices such as motifs, structural devices, character tone...

Topic Sentence:

Ibsen uses letter as a motif not only to exemplify scene changes but also significantly highlight the transformation of Nora particularly. 

Wilder delibrately organizes scene shits through a particular structural device ⎯ the inclusion of the stage manager not only signifies Emily character transformation but also arouse audience attention. 

Similarly, the inclusion of new charater often triggers scene changes to portray Nora and Emily different charaters as two dynamic protagonists. 

[Tsai.]

Question:
"Drama explains individuals not relationships." Paying close attention
to how individuals and relationships are presented in 2 or 3 plays you
have studied, say how far you find this statement to be true.

Introduction:
In A Doll’s House, Ibsen projects feminist ideologies onto Nora, the
protagonist. Hence examination of the development of this one single
character becomes the focal point of the play. Wilder, on the other
hand, make use of the theatre extensively to not only depict
relationship among characters, but between the performers on stage and
audience off stage as well. while Ibsen focuses on individual
characters to highlight the theme of the play, Wilder prefers to build
up delicate relationships to serve a different thematic use.

Topic Sentences:
1. The absence of props in Wilder’s play encourages personalization of
“Our Town” in the audience’s mind, that generates a personal,
emotional linkage between the two entities that are on, and off-stage.

2. Ibsen’s use of static stage scenery serves as a foil to the
spiritual development of Nora that is shrewdly hinted by the choice of
diction and length of sentences in her dialogues.

3. The Stage Manager is a structural device that Wilder uses to tie up
the performance on stage and the audience emotionally, thus prompting
empathy and forms a parallel between the happenings in Grover’s
Corners and the audience’s own.

[ingrid chung]

5) How do characters and the choices they make contribute to meaning

in two or three plays you have studied.

Introductory paragraph:
In "A Doll's House" and "Our Town", Ibsen and Wilder have
sophisticatedly presented a way in which the characters and their
decision made have contributed to the theme of their plays. In the use
of conversation in "A Doll's House", Ibsen highlights human's endeavor
to the value determined and commitment - Nora is ambitious in gaining
personal power while Krogstad desires to gain social power instead.
Similarily focusing on the structure of "Our Town", Wilder depicts the
chorus of life and death with man's relation to time and space - Stage
Manager's manipulation in the flow of the drama and Emily's
realization of the preciousness of life. Both dramatists have
adequately revealed the contributions that the characters and their
choices have to the meaning of the plays, yet, Ibsen applies dualogue
as the dominant literary technique while Wilder employs time
manipulation.

Topic sentences:
(i) Ibsen portrays Nora's unreliable appearance caused by her pursuit
of freedom through the dualogue between Nora and Torvald.
(ii) As "Our Town" is under the Stage Manager's command, Wilder uses
Stage Manager to introduce the three main parts of life ironically -
"daily life", "love and marriage" and "death".
(iii) In applying the dualogue between Krogstad and Nora, Ibsen
portrays Krogstad's commitment in receiving social power and status.
(iv) Wilder utilizes flashback of Emily to indicate human's innocence
on the superfluous details of life.

Evidences:
"For eight whole years - no, longer than that - ever since we first
met, we've never exchanged a serious word on any serious
subject." (Nora, Act III)

"Life has taught me not to believe in fine speeches." (Krogstad, Act
III)
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? every,
every minute?" (Emily, Act I)

Technical languages:
(i) pursuit
(ii) dramatic irony
(iii) sophisticatedly
(iv) dualogue
(v) time manipulation
(vi) superfluous details

[Jason Kwan]

Consider way in which scene changes may highlight the development of
the characters and their relationships.

Introduction:
Both Ibsen and Wilder use different structural techniques to
highlight the development of the characters and their relationships
through scene changes. Characters in A Doll’s House are developed in
the transition between each act. The opening dialogue by each
character in each act magnifies the relationships between themselves.
Furthermore, the change of physical elements without any change in
setting leads the audience to focus on the Nora’s doll-like figure. In
Our Town, the Stage Manager serves as a structural device to
foreshadow the development of the characters through his monologue.
Moreover, the manipulation of time by the Stage Manager further
unfolds the relationship between the characters. Ibsen depicts the
development of the characters and their relationships through scene
changes in the dialogue of the opening characters in each act while
Wilder employs the Stage Manager as a structural device to portray the
interrelationship between George and Emily.

Topic Sentence 1:
Ibsen often develops the character’s relationship in the transition
between each act by dismissing the minor characters and magnify the
next development by the opening dialogue of the character, this indeed
allow the audiences to recognize the transformation of the character’s
behavior.
Evidence 1:
[Nora, alone in the room, walks about restlessly, Eventually she tops
by the sofa and picks up her cloak.] [She opens the door and looks out
and coming back into the room again]
Nora: A thing like that couldn’t happen. It isn’t possible – I have
three little children

Topic Sentence 2:
Ibsen reveals the scene changes by changing the physical elements on
the stage but without changing the whole setting that certainly allows
the audiences to focus more on the transformation of Nora’s doll-like
behavior to an independent female figure rather than the progress of
the plot.
Evidence 2:
The mise-en scene in Act I basically provide the whole setting for the
whole play. In Act II, the physical props have been moved but the
characters are still in the same room. Again, we still at the same
scene while the table and chairs round it have been moved in Act III.
The audiences can concentrate on the character’s development and their
relationship rather than the surrounding elements.

Topic Sentence 3:
Wilder employs the Stage Manager in Our Town to serve as the
transition of scene through his monologue to foreshadow the
development of the characters and the manipulation of time further
unfolds the relationship between characters.
Evidence 3:
The Stage Manager comments on Joe Crowell at the beginning to
foreshadow his death.
The Stage Manager manipulates time back to the high school period when
George and Emily were still young adults to unfold the relationship
between them to the audience.

[L Chan]

2) With reference to two or three plays you have studied, examine the
dramatic significance of failures in communication.

Introduction

In both ‘A Doll’s House’ by Ibsen and ‘Death of a Salesman’ by
Miller, character interaction and their failure in communication are
often portrayed to achieve certain dramatic effects. Throughout ‘A
Doll’s House,’ although Torvald and Nora are in a seemingly loving
marriage, this does not necessary reflect their failure to communicate
with each other, and Nora’s acts of deceit. On the other hand, Willy
and Biff as father and son respectively in ‘Death of a Salesman’ are
entitled to their own opinions and do not understand the needs and
wants of each other. Within both plays, characters are shaped by
cultural and social expectations, which act as an barrier to
communicate, causing torment to families in both plays, leading to
tragic endings as this failure is revealed or unfolded upon the
characters and audiences. Through point of view and duologue, both
dramatists are able to utilize failure in communication between
characters to advance plot, create dramatic tension and portray
significant themes within both plays.



1st Topic Sentence
The use of duologue in ‘A Doll’s House’ not only reveals the lack of
communication throughout Torvald and Nora’s marriage, but also helps
to create dramatic tension to the audiences.

Evidences
Constrained by cultural and social expectations, Torvald as a husband
tries to govern the household completely whereas Nora tries to live up
to Torvald expectations and fulfill her role as housewife. Yet, as the
play progresses, Nora becomes increasing aware that she has “been
performing tricks” and Torvald only regard her as no more than a
symbol of status, building up dramatic tension. Nora near the end of
the play claims that they have “never exchanged a serious word on any
serious subject" throughout their relationship, reinforcing the theme
of unreliability of appearances that Ibsen tries to portray, which is
the loving relationship and marriage they try to maintain and
contribute to Nora’s determination to leave Torvald at the end of the
play.




2nd Topic Sentence
Similarly, in ‘Death of a Salesman,’ Willy only cares about economic
success and shows little compassion and understanding of Biff, his
son, which creates conflict between the two characters due to
misunderstanding and failure to communicate.

Evidences
Willy blindly pursues economic success and authority, and places high
expectations on Biff, shall Biff fails to live up to it Willy becomes
discontent. These conflicts that stems from duologues between the two
characters reveals that not only Willy knows little about his own son
Biff due to social expectations, which is to pursue success, but also
Willy’s incapability to accept others’ opinions. Although Biff has his
own ambition and “[sees] the things that [he] love in this world,” he
is limited by Willy’s dreams. This has led to advancement of plot,
which is Willy’s suicide at the end of the play, after realising that
he never achieves what he wants, which is to be “well-liked” and
successful. Willy’s failure to communicate and encompass Biff’s
opinions has driven him to become a tragic character, at the same time
strengthening the tension between characters. Both plays depicts
failure in communications and conflicts that arises to demonstrate how
strictly adhering to social and cultural values or expectations can
destroy relationships.



3rd Topic Sentence
Similarly, Torvald as a governor in ‘A Doll’s House’ and his
obsession with respect and personal power act as an barrier to
communicate with others, which in turn causes Nora to be deceitful and
a “liar” in Torvald’s perspective.

Evidences
As Torvald dominates Nora because of social expectations, Nora is not
allowed to express her emotions and let Torvald know that she is
taking out a loan for him, for Torvald would not be able to comply
with such disgrace. Nora is left with no choice but to hide the fact
from Torvald, which is clearly an example of communication failure as
a result of social and cultural constraints. As the play progresses,
it is increasingly evident that Nora has to live within Torvald’s
expectations, “the way Torvald likes it.” This has contributed to
dramatic tension and Nora’s realisation over time, where she has to
“get a sense of [herself],” pursue freedom and no longer be Torvald’s
doll. Furthermore, the limited power of woman is portrayed by Ibsen
through this failure in communication as well.

[amy keung]

3. How and to what effect have strong females been depicted in two or
three works you have studied?

Introduction:
In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Wilder’s Our Town, both dramatists
direct the audience’s focus to a female protagonist. Nora and Emily
are portrayed as strong females through the playwrights’ utilizations
of common techniques. Helmer and George, the women’s respective
romantic partners, both receive help from the women willingly or
involuntarily. Furthermore, both Nora and Emily are shown to actively
seek confrontations with the men to voice their opinions about them.
Through the juxtaposition of the women and men as primary characters,
Ibsen and Wilder prompt the audience’s comparison of the two genders,
and gain the impression that females are the stronger personalities.

Too plot-based, so I edited it:
In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Wilder’s Our Town, both dramatists
direct the audience’s focus to a female protagonist. Nora and Emily
are portrayed as strong females through the common technique of
juxtaposing male and female characters. While Ibsen primarily uses
irony to contrast the roles of Nora and Helmer, Wilder makes use of
dialogue between Emily and George to highlight her intellect. Ibsen
and Wilder both prompt the audience’s comparison of the female
protagonists against the characters’ romantic partners, and hence
conclude that females are the stronger personalities in the plays.


Topic sentence 1:
Both Ibsen and Wilder present their protagonists as women with
intellectual capacity.

Dramatic irony: Nora’s manipulation of Helmer while Helmer remains
ignorant, believing her to be a “silly girl”
Dialogue: Wilder incorporates a scene of Emily telling her family her
achievements in school


T/S 2:
Nora and Emily are presented as strong females who are capable of
providing aid to their male romantic partners.

Situational irony: Unbeknownst to Helmer, Nora saves his life through
loans, which he disapproves of
Dialogue: George asks for Emily’s help in his homework; he is
presented as the weaker personality


T/S 3:
The notion of the strength of females is conveyed most powerfully as
Ibsen and Wilder illustrate the protagonists’ confrontation with men.

Situational irony: The roles of Nora and Helmer are reversed as Ibsen
concludes the character transformation of Nora: She is depicted as the
person in control of her relationship with Helmer, and becomes
equipped with the character strength necessary to leave his household
Dialogue: Wilder presents George as a humble recipient of Emily’s
critique of him; the audience sees that Emily is the more powerful
figure.


Technical language:
Ibsen/Wilder portrays/depicts/illustrates...
Through the use of situational irony/dramatic irony/etc....
Wilder’s presentation of the dialogue between Emily and George...
[idea] becomes evident to the audience as...
Ibsen/Wilder conveys to the audience that...

[Ho Lok Sze]

2. Consider the ways in which scene changes may highlight the development of the characters and their relationship in two or three plays you have studied.

 

Introductory paragraph:

Throughout “Our Town” and “A doll’s house”, Wilder and Ibsen signify the development of characters and their relationships through using different technique of scene changes. Wilder uses the stage manager as a device, who can manipulate time. This not only creates dramatic tension, but also juxtaposes with the changes of Emily, which she is initially naïve and becomes aware to life. While Ibsen uses the technique of staging to make the character development significant. Throughout the play, as Nora interacts with Torvald and Mrs Linde at different places, as well as with the use of tone, this makes her being a doll-like housewife significant at Act I but transforms to be a……

 

Topic sentence:

1. Wilder uses stage manager as a structural device, not only create emotional impact to audience, but also parallels to the transformation of Emily. Whereas Ibsen uses ordinary setting for the stage with the use of spacing, characters relationship is presented.

 

2. To highlight the character as well as the interaction between them, Wilder uses the structure of three acts which reveals the stages of life; similarly, Ibsen uses three acts to make the progression of Nora’s personality significant.

 

Evidence:

-          Stage manager can manipulate the time, which helps the transformation of Emily in act III

-          Within the dialogue of Nora and Mrs Linde, they chat inside living room the context involve shows the intimacy between one and another

-          Three acts involve in “Our town” are in fact three important stages in life, with this shift, this portray the changes of ones’ life

-          With the use of three acts in “A doll’s house”, dramatic tension is builded up which parallel to the character change of Nora

 

Technical language:

-          Characters can transform can be 1. Presented 2. Developed 3. Revealed 4. Portrayed

-          Conflict

-          Dramatic tension

-          Motif

-          Convey a sense of character 

[lorraine!]

Introductory Paragraph:
Physical elements in play often helps dramatist to highlight
developments between characters and their relationships. In A Doll’s
House, Ibsen employs the most traditional stage setting to illustrate
movements within the play. On the other hand, in Our Town, the role
of the stage manager serves as a unifying device to structure and
manipulate time in the play. The time manipulation of the stage
manager provides flashback of events to the audience more plot details
and background information about character development and inter-
relationships. Both dramatist in Our Town and A Doll’s House uses
different techniques and device to highlight scene changes; Ibsen
employs the traditional setting, while Wilder uses the absence of
props and the role of stage manager to show the development of
characters.

Topic Sentences 1:
Wilder employs the stage manager as a structural device to manipulate
time flow of the play and portray flashback scenes and ultimately to
highlight the relationship between characters in Our Town.

Topic Sentences 2:
Wilder deliberately uses the absence of props to portray the most
ordinary life in Our Town, whereas in a Doll’s house, Ibsen employs
conventional setting as a physical element to highlight the character
of Nora as a being a typical housewife.

[playboy]

2) Consider the ways in which scene changes may highlight the

development of the characters and their relationship in two or three
plays you have studied.

INTRO: Scene changes, such as the change of time, setting, use of
props, use of motifs, atmosphere, and the change of stage scenery, are
often used by playwrights to develop characters, relationship between
characters, and the plot. Playwrights manipulate time in order to
portray the characteristics of the characters in the play to the
audience. The deliberate use of props and motifs by playwrights
contributes to developing tension between characters and their
internal conflicts. Three-act division and the correspondent scene
changes are used to make an emotional impact towards the audience,
such as building up repetitiveness or tension in the play, and helps
to portray the central meaning of the plays. Both Ibsen & Wilder
highlights the development of characters & their relationships in “A
Doll’s House” & “Our Town” by manipulating scene changes, such as the
manipulation of time, the use of props & motifs, and through the
correspondent scene changes that divide the play into three acts.

PARAGRAPH ONE: Wilder’s deliberate manipulation of time through the
use of the stage manager act as a structural device to allow the
audiences understand the characters in the play and “Our Town.” It can
also be used to portray the central meaning of the play.
Evidences: Stage Manager introducing characters in Act I; death of
Emily and her ‘trip’ back
PARAGRAPH TWO: Similarly, Ibsen uses Nora’s memories & flashbacks,
which are portrayed to the audience through her conversations with
Mrs. Linde, Krogstad & Torvald, to highlight the internal conflict
within Nora & the development of the relationship between Nora &
Torvald.
Evidences: Nora’s ‘forgery’ event eight years ago from the play
PARAGRAPH THREE: Wilder deliberately omits most of the props that
characters uses in “Our Town” in order to develop characters that suit
audiences’ town within their imagination, their “Our” town.
Evidences: Throughout the play, minimal props are used
PARAGRAPH FOUR: On the contrary, Ibsen’s use of motifs in “A Doll’s
House” reveals the unpleasant relationship of Nora and Torvald, the
underlying events that may be coming up, and building the tension
between characters in the play, as well as the audiences.
Evidences: The letter in “A Doll’s House” – a) reveals the issue; b)
builds Nora’s paranoia and Krogstad’s authority; c) builds tension
within Nora & Krogstad; Nora & Torvald.
PARAGRAPH FIVE: Wilder’s separation of three acts as a basic structure
reflects a normal human life cycle and how characters in “Our
Town” (and people in real lives) ignore insignificant details
throughout their lives.
Evidences: Structure: 1) introduce characters, town, portray normal
lives; 2) normal; 3) Death!
PARAGRAPH SIX: On the other hand, Ibsen’s deliberate separation of the
typical three-act division is used to enhance tension between
characters and develop characters thoroughly through the change of
events.
Evidences: Nora becomes more tense and paranoiac in progressive acts.
The relationship between Nora & Krogstad breaks-down more…

Technical Language
(i) Time manipulation
(ii) Use of props
(iii) motifs
(iv) three-act division
(v) Character development
(vii) Tension
(viii) Flashbacks
(viiii) scene shifts

[Michael]

How do characters and the choices they make contribute to meaning in

two or three plays you have studied.

Paragraph 1

Choices of characters in plays often dominate the development of the
plot. Henrik Ibsen’s creation of Nora in A Doll’s House whom
ultimately chose to abandon the family conveys the meaning of the
female’s seek of freedom and status in the society in the 19th
century. Thornton Wilder’s creation of Mrs. Webb in Our Town conveys
the meaning of ignorance and lack of compassion between people in the
society. These effects are achieved by the playwrights through the use
of character and plot development and tension, which ultimately
reveals the play’s respective meaning and morals to the audiences.

Topic sentence

Ibsen’s development of Nora has changed her from an obedient wife to a
strong female figure seeking for freedom, conveying the message of how
women may be suppressed by their social role in the society.

Wilder’s lack of development of Mrs. Webb on the other hand has made
her static in the trait of not expressing compassion towards others,
conveying the message of the absence of compassion between people in
the society.

Ibsen’s deployment of plot details also ultimately reveals the message
of the sacrificial role of women when its made obvious that the
husband figure in a family in the play often commands the family.

Wilder’s lack of props and a significant storyline reveals the message
of the transience of human life by showing how things in the town
continues over and over again while characters come and go.

Evidence

Changes in Nora’s style of conversation
Quotes on Mrs. Webb’s lack of care and compassion
The introduction-climax-ending structure of A Doll’s House
Quotes and commands from Stage Manager

Technical language

Character Development
Internal Conflict
Plot Development
Plot Details
Theme
Plot Structure

[rachelleu...@yahoo.com.hk]

Introduction

In drama, scene changes can be define as the change of background,
setting, props and scenery, normally scene changes occur is to
highlight the changes in character and plot.
In Our town, Wilder employs the stage managers as a a structural
device to structure the time and changes with in the play to help to
create a focal point to the audience. contrastingly Ibsen uses the
structure of well made play to establish the development of character
and relationship.

Topic sentence:
The stage manager in our town not only serves as a stage manager aslo
Wilder uses him as a time keeper to emphasize the changes in the
relationship between characters.

Ibsen uses the structure of well-made play to display the
transformation of the character and the audience.


Evidence
- Every time when the act begins, stage manger will be the one who
introduces the play to the audience
- He is able to manipulate the time
- In A doll's house each of the act symbolizes a change in Nora and
Helmer 's relationship

Technical langage
establish
structural device
well made play
focal point]
scenery
employ

[Norym]

Introduction:

To what effect have string females been depicted in two or three works
you have studied?

Usually, the usage of strong female character could make the play
unique since it brings a considerable contrast in the men-rule world.
Ibsen has portrayed Nora as a tragic figure due to her lack of freedom
given by her life, as being strapped in “A doll’s house”. But later
on, by abandoning her husband and children, it shows the paradoxical
personality of Nora throughout the play. As for Emily in “Our Town”,
her figure of strong female characteristic has also be depicted on her
life after death, which she tries to change the current situation. The
effect created by strong female characters is used as symbol in “A
doll’s house” and “Our Town” differently by the writers to illustrate
the theme, which Nora symbolizes, ruined relationship, and Emily
symbolizes faith.

[Tsz Yin Chong]

Question: "How do characters and the the choices they make contribute

to meaning in two or three plays you have studied."

Introduction:

In dramas, characters often have different ways they can choose from
to achieve their goals with. These choices they make allow and develop
the progress of plot, and it is the progress of plot that contributes
to the portrayal of a play’s meaning. In both “A Doll’s House” by
Henrik Ibsen and “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder, characters make
decisive choices which bring great turning points to the plots of the
plays and further enhance their meanings. The choice made by Nora to
leave her family behind is, in a sense, a loss of her. However, she
insists on making this choice because she has realized the importance
of being independent even as a female. It is fair to say that she lost
because she learnt. On the other hand, Emily from “Our Town” learnt
because she lost. She lost her life, which is the seemingly the most
important thing for a person. Through her choice of flashing back
though, she gains her consciousness and realisation to the truth of
life, which is even more precious.

Topic Sentences:
1. Wilder's frequent uses of time shift through the mean of the Stage
Manager in "Our Town" condense the plot's progress and emphasize the
decisiveness of characters' choices in the transience lives.
2. Ibsen creates dramatic ironies by portraying Nora's leaving in Act
III as both the regaining of her consciousness and also her escape
from the situation, hencing depicting the internal conflicts of Nora.

Evidence:
1. "I have been performing tricks for you, Torvald. That’s how I’ve
survived. You wanted it like that. You and Papa have done me a great
wrong. It’s because of you I’ve made nothing of my life."
2. "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every,
every minute?"
3. "Free. To be free, absolutely free. To spend time playing with the
children. To have a clean, beautiful house, the way Torvald likes it."
4. "From now on, forget happiness. Now it’s just about saving the
remains, the wreckage, the appearance."
5. "Something glorious is going to happen."

Technical Language:
(i) Motifs
(ii) Time Shift
(iii) Dramatic Tension
(iv) Characterisation
(v) Emphasize
(vii) Portray
(viii) Develop
(viiii) Expose

On Mar 21, 12:55 pm, iain melville <elliv...@gmail.com> wrote:

[kwok lun Chow]

Q4. "Drama explains individuals not relationships." Paying close

attention
to how individuals and relationships are presented in 2 or 3 plays
you
have studied, say how far you find this statement to be true

Introduction
In the two plays,"Our Town" and "A Doll's House", plays are performed
to show social issues of their time.
Both of the play makers Wilder and Ibsen wish to convey their central
ideas to the audiance though the help of
Characterization and the setting that they are situated in. By
projecting the change in stage settings and Characters dialogue,
writers are able to lively explain both individuals and the
relationship between them on stage as both of the plays are well made
play and the shifting of stage setting fully reveals both the change
in indivuals and also relationships among characters. Dramatic
tension, stage development and dialogue tone are manipulate in the
process of bring the act to it's climax as the theme and messages are
brought out thought the two plays.

topic sentence1
The development in portraying the change in tone though out dialogues
of Nora and Emily's at different life stages manifest the alter of the
the thoughts of an individual and also the variation of how they deal
with relationships thought out ordinary life situations.

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Dramatic tension is developed between charactersto to show and explain
changes of the mantality thought out the shift in sceneries as the
well made play is constructed by the two play makers.

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The creation of stagemanager, allows the insights of an individual and
the relationship between to be better explained as it is easier to
speak and voice out directly to the audiance to convey important
informations.

Technical Language:
Stage dvelopment
Creation of stagemanager
well made play
dramatic tension
manifest
tone in dialogue

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“A Doll’s House” written by Ibsen and “Our Town” by Wilder had been
use different scene changes to highlight the development of
characters and their relationships. Wilder use the stage manager as a
narrator and also to give a sense of character is that new scene to
the audience where Ibsen use the same settings for all three act of
his play to develop the characters in the played to communicate wit
the audience that there is a scene change.

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Topic sentence : Ibsen depict the story by the use of same settings
from the play , and every scene begins at the same room to show the
development of Character

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Topic sentece : Wilder portray the scene change by the use of stage
manager as a narrator to develop the character.

Paragraph 3:
Topic sentence: Scene changes was introduce in different and create a
similar result.