... , and thoughts, though the narrator does not share any feelings or thoughts throughout the story. The way the narrator responds to occasions is with body language and emotions. The narrator's dialog helps reveal other characters as well. First person point-of-view is appropriate for this story because is the optimal way of providing psychological effects to the protagonist and other ... ...
... of Blanche with Stanley, who represents contemporary social values driven by male dominance. He is violent and barbaric throughout the play, both in costuming (an element of spectacle) and in dialog (in this case, an expression of both diction and character). As the play progresses, Stanley uses every possible tool available to him to subjugate Blanche, including destroying any possible healthy ... ...
... weak or distasteful. The scene of counting wounds, characterized by critics to show the calloused nature of Volumnia, allows in performance a comic nature to the scene provided by Menenius" counterpoint dialog that escalates the emotionless accounting and helps define a bourgeois personality for Volumnia. A reviewer of the 1979 RSC production agreed when he compared her to the "Jewish-American mother" in Portnoy ... ...
