Month: February 2016

In the scene that we saw today, we could tell that the foreman was a character who was very serious and that he was the classic boss that no one liked. The reason for this, was because the expressions on his face during the scene where he was quite serious and his posture was straight, which inflicted that we had power amongst his workers, and in a play, this would be easy for the audience to recognise.

The foreman as we could see had a hatred for his jobs and colleagues for whatever reason. It may have been because he had a bad experience earlier in his life that he looks like a man full of rage. And thats the beauty, we don’t know, which causes the audience to think in more depth and outside the box.

But again, he may be angry because his job is difficult, risky and important so he must be strict and professional so that the job that he has been issued can be fulfilled at an adequate pace.

He may completely different at home to at his working environment, due to the fact that he merely dent like his job and only does it to keep himself with a comfortable life (or for his family if he has one). For all we know, he could be the absolute opposite in his own preferred domain, than what he is portrayed to be like in the scene!

As we can see I decided to put two pictures of Generals enjoying themselves and savouring all the alcohol they can hold while they have soldiers who are dying on the frontline. In WW1 many generals weren’t actually trained but were picked for the job due to their wealthy background.

These images communicate to our audience that it would be ethically/morally wrong to do this nowadays, but back then it was seen as merely a part of daily life for generals. The audience is made to think about the thin line between right and wrong and where the limit is. Soldiers had almost no rights and it makes us think wether soldiers today get the credit they deserve for putting their lives in danger for their country.

Clearly it was wrong for generals to be enjoying themselves while thousands of soldiers were being slaughtered on the frontline, but, have things really changed since then? Should soldiers get more credit for their duties? Should generals be put under strict control so that they don’t abuse their power?

In my group, we were going to have a scene where a the man at war is about to cross no mans land while his wife is at home doing the “typical womans job” i.e. washing, cooking etc. We were going to have a moment, where just as the man is going cross no mans land, he takes out a chain where he and the woman at home kiss it at the same time. This moment is significant as it signifies how far away families physically were during WW1 yet how close they were just through something small like a chain or photo.

We decided that in our scene, the man gets shot in slow motion so that the audience sees the brutality of war. As the man gets shot, the woman at home receives a pain in her chest and at this point she clenches her heart in pain and falls to the ground. This specific part in the scene also showed our audience what it was like for families and women in WW1, to cope with the pain of having their husband killed, while still having to look after kids, elders etc.

In chapter 18, Mr.Wopsle Joe and Pip decide to go to the Three Jolly Bargemen and as Mr.Wopsle was speaking a stranger interrupted the conversation between Mr. Wopsle and the listeners, and asked questioned Mr. Wopsle of his thoughts on the subject of a murder that he was talking about. He then pulls Joe aside and says that someone that he is working for wants Pip and he will offer Joe money for Pip. Joe leaves it up to Pip whether he wants to go or not but doesn’t want any money from the stranger as he feels that it would be greedy and he genuinely wanted Pip to do what he felt comfortable with. “Lord forbid that I should