a minor role -u.a fanthorpe Flashcards

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dramatic monologue

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conversational sense

implied listener - theatrical

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structure falls apart

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façade begins to fall

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single stanza

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tonal shift

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enjambment

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outpouring of emotion

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caesura

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pauses and interruptions involved with illness

how it impacts life

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‘i’m best observed on stage’

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first person

someone else

metaphor for life

sense of distance between the reader and the speaker

almost ironic - only the best in a side role

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‘yes sir. o no sir’

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simplistic lines - mirrors her role in society

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‘midget moments wrong, the monstrous fabric shrinks to an unwanted snigger’

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societal norms

still important - contributes to something bigger

metaphor of society as a ‘monstrous fabric’ is complex and multi-layered, its dangerousness is alluded to by the adjective ‘monstrous’, whilst there is also an implied sense of facade being central to society through ‘fabrications’.

we present ourselves in a way that doesn’t cause embarrassment or discomfort to others

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‘but my heart’s in the unobtrusive’

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go under the radar - doesn’t want to draw attention to themselves

disjunction - how the illness changes the speaker

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‘waiting room roles; driving to hospitals,’

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boring and monotonous

exhaustive technique in order to attempt to make the reader understand the heavy toll in which the hospital-world has on those involved

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‘consultants monologues’

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trying to make sense of it

bored

links to theatre

hospital world and its expectations sound as exhausting as the illness itself

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‘getting on terms with receptionists’

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being polite

there so often

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‘sustaining the background music of civility’

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social norms

metaphor

have to play a certain role

people asking if you’re okay

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‘walking fast in case anyone stops:’

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caesura - mimics being stopped, trapped in illness

rude not to ask

bored of being asked

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‘o getting on, getting better my formula for well meant intrusiveness’

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medical language

procedural way of answering questions - second nature now

echolalia

they are opposites.- society demands the very thing her heart wishes to avoid.

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‘answer the phone’

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imperative

doctor or family?

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‘wary what i say to it’

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alliteration

distanced themselves

doesn’t want to talk

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‘whimsical soft centred happy all the way through novels’

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escapism

cheer themselves up

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‘cancel things, tidy things; pretend all’s well’

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caesura - masking

not well enough to to simple things

façade drops

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‘for a simpler illness, like a broken leg’

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easy to fix

know the healing process

know the cure

the reality of chronic illness

21
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‘enduring ceremonial delays’

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elongated words - emphasises the torture of the process

22
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‘not the star part. and who would want it?

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hates attention

rhetorical question

cyclical structure

wants to be honest with themself and the world. And yet they don’t

more contradictions - pretence was part of life and she wants to live, so it should continue

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‘terrible drone of the chorus’

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can’t cope anymore

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’ i am here to make you believe in life’

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optimistic

doesn’t want to give up

wants to live

volta?

powerful statement of human desire to live

25
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headlines

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illness affects your role in society

creating an act to hide struggles

there is no existence without struggle

isolation of illness

society’s fabric causes those who are ill to still be considered by others

societal expectation often lead to illness being neglected