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11-18-2007, 01:44 PM
Hi,
I'm taking a module in modern drama and want to focus my essay on the issue of language in Becktt's Happy Days and Tennessee William's Suddenly Last Summer.
My main ideas are below, the problem is I need to synthesise all my ideas into some kind of argument about American and British drama! -->
Winnie's fear of silence and subsequent use of speech as a means of proving her existence, and its relation to the idea that, ultimately, language is inadequate at articulating inner human experience.
Violet Venables and her fear of Catharine's version of Sebastian's 'reality'. The suppression of Catharine's spoken word throughout play suggests the sheer power of language to destabilise an otherwise socially acceptable identity.
Overall I am interested in writing about the tensions between the spoken and the unspeakable in both plays. Does anyone have any advice for writing an essay about this topic?
Thanks
I'm taking a module in modern drama and want to focus my essay on the issue of language in Becktt's Happy Days and Tennessee William's Suddenly Last Summer.
My main ideas are below, the problem is I need to synthesise all my ideas into some kind of argument about American and British drama! -->
Winnie's fear of silence and subsequent use of speech as a means of proving her existence, and its relation to the idea that, ultimately, language is inadequate at articulating inner human experience.
Violet Venables and her fear of Catharine's version of Sebastian's 'reality'. The suppression of Catharine's spoken word throughout play suggests the sheer power of language to destabilise an otherwise socially acceptable identity.
Overall I am interested in writing about the tensions between the spoken and the unspeakable in both plays. Does anyone have any advice for writing an essay about this topic?
Thanks