What use is made of voice and voices in your prescribed text and other texts of your choosing.
In your answer you should consider the following elements:.
Who this voice represents.
The language that is used.
The effects on the responder.
The use of voice and voices in the club allows the reader to determine the characters attitudes. In the Club the playwright D Williamson is able to use voice to present characters in different forms. The way a playwright can use voice in dialogue includes characteristics such as tone, pause, punctuation and controlling characters. These have different affects on the reader as different people will have different interpretations and assumptions. In the club D Williamson also uses language features such as colloquialism repetition and emotive words.
Voice of characters can be presented in many different varieties. The tone of a character provides a more superior understanding of each characters personality. The continual use of short sentences by Williamson presents a character that is very arrogant. From this extract in the club we will be able to see how tone is one form used by Williamson to present a characters voice to the audience.
Laurie: Do you know what Jock?.
Jock: What?.
Laurie: You're a hypocritical bastard.
Jock: Well it is a bloody disgrace.
This illustrates how a reader is able to interpret Laurie and Jock's tone as very angry and also arrogant. The tone presented through these characters also is very blunt, as they are both straight to the point in a rude manner. This shapes the readers image of a particular characters personality, and helps built an image of the character This demonstrates how a playwright is able to present a characters voice to the audience and the affects that tone has on the responder.
The use of the language technique pause is generally used to create tension in a play, although in D Williamsons case it is used to emphasise the stupidity presented by jock.
