A Minor Role- Poerty Flashcards
“I am best observed on stage”
- A Minor Role
- Lexical/ semantic field of acting
- Many theatre references, putting on a display of bravery.
“Propping a spear, or making endless
Exits and entrances with my servants platter”
- A Minor Role
- “Propping a spear,” “My servants platter”
- Starting out, is unimportant, isn’t at the forefront of things, always in the background.
- “Making endless exits and entrances”
- Taking someone somewhere, occupied with going somewhere with someone else’s stuff to do.
“If I get these midget moments wrong, the monstrous fabric shrinks to unwanted sniggers.”
- A Minor Role
- Tiny things she does, seem unimportant, has a bigger effect than what thought. Can matter a lot.
“My heart’s in the unobtrusive,”
- A Minor Role.
- Narrator’s emotions and feelings are not apparent, unaware to others because is acting.
“holding hands under veteran magazines.”
- A Minor Role
- reassuring someone else, there not for themselves, to help someone.
- They have been there a long time, repeated and frequent appointments.
“Making sense of consultants’ monologues;”
- A Minor Role
- Imagery of hospital and the theatre.
- Trying to make sense of illness while covering it up and acting.
“Getting on, getting better my formula for well-intended intrusiveness”
- A Minor Role
- Using science to better the patient.
- Using science to make people pass over the fact that they aren’t well
“Answer the phone, be wary what I say to it.”
- A Minor Role
- Performing at home to keep up standards of feeling well.
- Where no one sees, has to pretend.
“Contrive meals for a hunger striker”
- A Minor Role
- Making someone else food, maybe not themselves, act that a carer does.
- Glimpse of the potential illness the patient has: Cancer? Anorexia?
“(mysteriously reassuring)”
- A Minor Role
- Her thoughts?
- things people would find normality, finds comfort in being like everyone else
“cancel things, tidy things”
- A Minor Role
- list
- Things have to act out in order to look after someone else.
- Doing stuff based on what the other person needs.
“Pretend all’s well, admit it’s not.”
- A Minor Role.
- Theatre reference “All’s well that ends well”
- pretending as long as she can to make things better for other people.
- Contradiction between pretences and reality. Things are not what she makes the out to be.
“Tears, torpor boredo, lassitude, yearnings
For a simpler illness, like a broken leg.”
- A Minor Role.
- “Torpor” mental/ physical inactivity.
- They don’t have the energy to do things.
- theatrical reference “break a leg”
- Physical/ mental illness is not as easy to fix or deal with.
- Maybe not as widely understood, comes with societal expectations.
“Saying thank you
For everything to everyone”
- A Minor Role
- Have been putting on pretences to make things simpler.
“Not the star part”
- A Minor Role.
- indentation of the line.
- Doesn’t take the attention, always in the background.
- is the carer of someone who is ill.
- Turning point, embraces that is not at the forefront of things.
