After reading the play I noticed how important it must be to have bold characters. Without realising, I began to compare the characters to ones in Charles Dickens, Rhoald Dahl's work and Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice because of how important the characters are when bringing these stories to life. Like The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, these literary works rely so much on the potency of the animated characters. They begin to symbolise themes within the texts, the caricatures created remain an essential part of the storytelling and their characteristics are explored through the physical representation. This extract from Rhoald Dahl's 'Twits' I came across a while ago is completely relatable to how we as a class should explore the play.
Themes
The themes that stood out to me the most straight away were Mistreatment, Power, Greed etc.
The theme of 'Appearance being Deceiving' seemed to stand out to me a lot- not only the most obvious way like the villains of the play hiding the mistreatment from many but the manipulation involved
The theme of Greed is intoduced in the outset of the play in the most basic analogy of the word- being greed of food demonstrated by Mr Grimshaw on the train scene with Sylvia. As the storyline progresses Mrs Briskett is revealed to be similar, and her greed is also foreshadowed by food/cheese. Both of these characters' greed for food have can be seen as a symbol of their greed for the orphanage expense etc,
This is a good example of the kind of characterisation we will be engaging in.
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