Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Stage Directions
- Movement
- P: (puts his book down, taps out his pipe)
- Perhaps he is consciously choosing to give J a chance and put
aside his inhibitions
- J wipes the knife handle clean of fingerprints
- Demonstrating that he does care about P
- He holds the knife, not to attack but to defend
- Is this really true though?
- Perhaps P only thinks it's in defense, but he was clearly very angry before
- Still ends up killing J
- J moves to P's bench, this is the first time he has sat during the play
- The fact that there was another bench but he refused to sit highlights J's refusal to fit to what society wants him to be
- The tickling
- Facial Expression
- P seems hypnotised
- meta-theatre
- He forces a laugh, he seems uncomfortable
- Peter is trapped by his idea of what is socially polite, he can't
leave because he knows that would be considered rude.
- Peter winces
- Peter reacts in a similar way to how the audience would at
hearing these stories, through this he becomes the
audiences surrogate
- Tone
- P: (lightly; by reflex) Ha, Ha!
- Peter generally wavers between calm, distant and confused with some changes to furious.
- J screams, sounding like an infuriated and fatally wounded animal
- P: (with disgust and immpotence) You want me to give up this bench
- He is offended that someone would ever ask something of him
- Jerry is generally very aggressive and intense
- P: (almost whining) No
- Emphasises the immaturity of their argument
- Jerry wearily finishes his story
- He himself is sick of what a sorry story his life makes
- Has shared too much