Truth and lies Cat

Question 1

‘This disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself’

Answer 1

repetition of abstract noun disgust and use of syntactic parallelism draws relationship between ‘mendacity’ and ‘yourself’- Brick. His disgust stems from the fact he is lying tohimself and others.

Question 2

‘CHRIST-DAMN-ALL LYING SOMS OF-LYING BITCHES’ (BD)

Answer 2

Capitalisation- shouting/anger use of dashes breaks the fluency of the sentence BD’s anger is such that he is struggling to articulate himself/struggling for breath

Question 3

‘Brick and I are going to -have a child!’

Answer 3

dash and !- builds dramatic tension which also increases the sense of dramatic irony- the lie) Maggie is the victor

Question 4

‘So tonight we’re going to make the lie true’

Answer 4

Paradox- the concept of lying is fluid- lies can be made into truths

Question 5

‘Maybe it’s being alive that makes them lie and being almost not alive makes me sort of accidently truthful.’ (B TO BD)

Answer 5

repetition of dynamic word ‘makes’- lying is a state of living

Question 6

‘Wouldn’t it be funny if that was true?’ B to M

Answer 6

rhetorical, descriptive adj funny. Maggie has not won completely; ending of play is inconclusive