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Monologue: A Cream Cracker Under the Settee

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A Cream Cracker Under The Settee is a Monologue, this means it is just 1 person speaking instead of like a normal play, like a normal play it has different characters, like the policeman or the boy said to be ‘spending a penny’ but these do not have a role of great significance, so it just mainly focuses on the main character, Doris.

Her name alone suggests that is an elderly lady and that the setting is probably not 21st century. Other things that suggest these 2 points are the phrases used like the boy peeing in her garden, she refers to it as ‘spending a penny’ this suggests she is using phrases that are dated so is either old, from a few decades ago or both, seeing as the author wrote this a while ago and was heavily influenced by …show more content…

Well he’s got a minuet now bless him’ this is really bad because she’s basically saying ‘haha your dead but I still love you’ which makes you think that she is either loopy or mean. But if she is either of them it is because she has had things happen in her life which made her that way, like because of the still birth, because of Wilfred’s death and because of all the things that happened in between an with Wilfred. Also her paranoia or phobia of dirt at an old age where its not easy for her to do things like clean and dust for herself must be going to her head.

The significance/reason for this being called ‘A Cream Cracker Under The Settee’ is that when she has her fall and injures her leg, and she is talking about how Zulima doesn’t do her job properly, she sees a cream cracker under her settee, she then rants and raves more, saying she will use it as evidence but then she eats it, which in the end is life saying ‘its your own fault your in this position’ because she ate her evidence, she had to go and dust the photo frame and she had to argue with Wilfred.

The camera uses different types of shot and focuses to show the emotion on Doris’s face, but also the room she is in and the time of day, these 2 are important because it gives you the typical layout and how she would struggle to move around obstacles, also that every time she goes further back into her past, the later it gets, and by the time she’s at the door it is getting dark, that’s why the

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