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ACTION IS PORTRAYED IN DIFFERENT WAYS IN DIFFERENT GENRES. DISCUSS THE WAYS IN WHICH ACTION IS PORTRAYED IN THE TEXTS PYGMALION AND WIDE SARGASSO SEA.
By looking at and comparing certain scenes and themes from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion and Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea, I will compare how both authors convey action. Action can be defined in many ways but I have defined it as how the author shows their audience how a sequence of events come to a conclusion and the internal and external factors that govern the consequences.
Pygmalion is a romance written in five acts while Wide Sargasso Sea is split into three separate parts. ... Pygmalion is clearly divided into separate scenes, made apparent to the audience by the use of changing scenery and mutating locations. ... In a novel, the author can be a little more descriptive with the action, the characters can voice their feelings through an inner monologue but in a play the character has to discuss their feelings in order for us to know what they are thinking. ...
With Rhys’s first person narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea, we are able to feel more in tune with one character; while in Pygmalion we are able to witness two sides to an argument, Rhys has chosen to show the story to us from a set perspective, starting with that of a child. ... This differs greatly to Shaw’s Pygmalion, we are given all the information that we need about the major characters and things are explained to us in detail about why things are done a certain way. ... Rhys build tension by describing ‘the sky and the sea were on fire” . ... In Shaw’s Pygmalion Eliza remains silent for most of the scene, Higgins and Pickering seem oblivious to her presence; talking about her as though she is not there. Both scenes lead to a dramatic conclusion with the action of flung objects. ... ”
In Pygmalion a ring and a pair of slippers being thrown is the culmination of the tense atmosphere in the scene;
“[Higgins dashes the ring violently into the fireplace, and turns on her so threateningly that she crouches over the piano with her hands over her face, and exclaims] Dont you hit me.
Approximate Word count = 1623
Approximate Pages = 6.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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