Loot A05 (Critics)

Question 1

Joan Dean (religion,satire & social criticism,comedy)

Answer 1

“Hypocrisy seems to be the only or at least a cardinal sin in Orton’s cosmos”

Question 2

Greenberg (shock, horror and grotesque)

Answer 2

“Nothing is sacred and everything is viable”

Question 3

Andrew Maybe (death)

Answer 3

“The iconoclastic attitudes to death and bereavement gives way to moral anarchy”

Question 4

Mary Casmus (mockery)

Answer 4

“Orton was reckless […] so it was inevitable that his plays were often offensive to the general public”

Question 5

Sammells (women as seductresses and temptresses)

Answer 5

“Subversion of naturalism amounts to a refusal of oppressive normativity”

Question 6

Clare (women as seductresses and temptresses)

Answer 6

“Women have internalised patriarchal ideology”

Question 7

Joan Dean (pessimism and bleakness)

Answer 7

“Orton does nothing in Loot to vitiate the depravity of Fay, Hal, and Dennis”

Question 8

Joan Dean (pessimism & bleakness and appetite)

Answer 8

“None of the characters feel the need for any atonement […] they feel no sense of sin, guilt or immorality”

Question 9

Joe Orton (comedy)

Answer 9

“Laughter is a serious business, and comedy a weapon more dangerous than tragedy”

Question 10

Emma Parker

Answer 10

“Loot questions the distinction between those who break the law and those who uphold it”

Question 11

Charney

Answer 11

“There are no hard feelings between the criminals and the law who understand each other perfectly.”