English Homework
How do I feel about the speaker in the Laboratory?
The speaker is a very interesting character. She has many strong emotions towards the characters as she is attempted to poison one of them. She is very self-centred and will do anything in-order to get her way. An example of her selfish thoughts and actions is showed in stances XI “If it hurts her, beside, can it ever hurt me?” This may be her doubting her actions for the first time, but not because of the consensuses upon the person she going to poison but on her. This shows another very selfish thing to think and also a paranoid thought. Her actions also suggest that she may mentally unstable, an example of this besides the fact that she is about to kill someone is “He is sure to remember her dying face!” This comes across as ‘slightly’ insane.
She tends to act fast and execute her actions before she thinks it through, but ends up worrying about it later. Shen begins to get very paranoid thinks everyone around her are watching and laughing, this is shown on stances II ” While they laugh, laugh at me, at me fled to the drear empty church, to pray god in, for them” The quote proves she is imagining them laughing at her and is getting very paranoid. This backs up both of my theory’s on the speaker.
September 11, 2014 at 12:33 pm
Hello Joe,
You have clearly understood the speaker, their thoughts and actions. You successfully embed quotations and have shown your own inferences. Thank you for your detailed efforts.
Targets:
1) Identify stylistic devices that help to reinforce your interpretation of the character. For example: “If it hurts her, beside, can it ever hurt me?” you could go even further by drawing our attention to the alliteration and how this might increase the pace of the line. What might the increased pace show? Why?
2) Be careful with this typos.
Thanks,
Mr North