War-Time Transcript Notes (Pages 1-2)

Page 1

• P18

  • Quote: "Lipstick Larry Beating Sheila to beat of the music"

  • Key effects: Poor living conditions; Resilience in face of danger

  • Techniques: Auditory Imagery

• P26

  • Quote: "For my birthday. In 1942." - Bridie

  • Object: Tobacco tin with caramel inside

  • Key effects: Friendship and sacrifice

  • Techniques: Flashback; Realism; Pathos

• P25

  • Quote: "I’d never have done that - not for anyone." - Bridie

  • Key effects: Tension

  • Techniques: Contrasted Bridies and Sheila's viewpoints; Climax; Juxtaposition; Flashback; Contrast

• P34

  • Motif: Crickets in the background in the silence

  • Key effects: Foreshadowing

  • Techniques: Tension; Intensifies the scene of Sheila's rape; Non-Diegetic Sounds; Auditory Imagery

• P20

  • Quote: "Filthy pits"

  • Context: Referring to Toilets

  • Key effects: Horrible living conditions

  • Techniques: Evokes sympathy and pathos from the audience; Blunt; Pathos; Flashback; Adjective

• P19

  • Event: The song "Happy times" plays whilst 12 nurses are killed

  • Key effects: Irony; Post-war song; Dark and Graphic; Traumatic; War Atrocities

  • Techniques: Juxtaposition; Contrast; Auditory Imagery; No-Diegetic Sounds; Flashback; Visual Imagery

• Act 1, Scene 4

  • Quote: "I got you through this war" - Bridie

  • Notes: Bridie acts like her mother; Egotistical; Blunt Language?

  • Action: Bridie cleaning glass over and over again

  • Key themes: PTSD; Atrocities of the war; Uncomfortable

  • Techniques: Flashback; Visual Imagery

Page 2

• Act 2, Scene 13

  • Quote: "The British didn't want anyone to know about us"

  • Key points: Atrocities of the war; The British praised the soldiers but are embarrassed of the POWs

  • Techniques: Irony; Juxtaposition; Contrast

• Act 2, Scene 14

  • Quote: "That the war is over. And you and I are free…."

  • Key points: No longer bound by secrets, trauma, and memory from the war

  • Techniques: Symbolic; Metaphor; Hyperbole