Maintaining the Audience's Interest in Talking Heads
One character talking to a camera for half an hour, Do you call that
drama? How does Alan Bennet try to maintain the audience’s interest in
his Talking Heads?
In A Lady of Letters, Patricia Routledge plays the part of Irene
Ruddock, who is a very lonely woman that has an obsession with writing
letters to everyone to complain about the smallest of things. She
lives by herself, and has done since her mother died. A Lady of
Letters is a drama because it includes different amounts of lighting
at certain points of the video. Routledge also acts when she is
speaking to the camera, for example she gets very upset at some points
e.g. when she talks about when the police told her the little boy over
the road had died of leukaemia. She also expresses herself well by her
actions.
At first Irene seems like a very highly classed woman, very
respectable and knows what is wrong and right. She also appears to be
a very respectable lady. We know this because in the video, it shows
her having her tea and biscuits with a napkin. However, throughout the
video, we see some changes to Irene; we see that she might not be as
respectable as we first thought. One of these reasons is because when
she goes to the doctors, she says “I said I was getting upset, like I
did before…” This indicates that she may have been ill because of
certain happenings which were probably to do with the letters which
she writes.
Shortly after this, she lets us know about when the vicar came around,
talking to her about god. She then tells us about how she is an
Atheist. We do not expect this because you would have thought someone
as respectable as Irene would believe in God and go to church every
Sunday morning. “They don’t expect you to be an atheist when you’re a
miss…” This shows that because she told the Vicar that she was an
atheist, he did not know what to say, because he like us expected her
to believe in God and go to church like every other respectable lady
like her.
Next we hear about her visit from the Police, which is where we find
out what she really is like. At first, the male police man talks about
the different types of letters which she had wrote in the past, and
then we find out that she has been told to keep the peace by the
courts. At this point, we finally realise that she isn’t that
with one order. She goes against the highest power for justice and it could mean the death of her
she uses her brains to mastermind a plan to cleverly sneak her way behind enemy lines and
There are many documented occasions of her spying and delivering secrets. It is said that one day wh...
arrives she wants to know what is going on and when she founds out she
The queen is not an innocent bystander as well. She shows her dark side when she is
the blood all over the guards and put the daggers in their hands. She went along
But now for whatever reason, this woman's decided to help them find their prince. She was an enigma. But the Knight and his allies can't do anything about her and the organization that only seeks to further her goals. It was frightening to think that this is just as she wanted, but that's not what's important. Right now, they have a chance.
End: The doctor tells her to open her mouth, but she is always unresponsive. He then uses forces several times to get her to open her mouth and finally opens her bleeding mouth. Eventually he learns that she has a sore throat and was lying to her parents about it.
Despite being within the dark aspect, Irene still benefits from her first encounter with her grandmother and thus undergoes a small change. Due to meeting her grandmother, Irene realizes that sometimes it is wise to keep her own counsel.
...an the father and we don’t know what it comes from. My wife has given her things, you know, like people do, but it don’t do no good. And there’s been a lot of sickness around. So we tho’t you’d better look her over and tell us what is the matter”
She eventually decides to help the rebels in exchange for immunity for Peeta and the other
After defeating her, he captures her and bring her to Mother Base, where she is held prisoner.
She goes on further to describe what is wrong with them. Parker says he is happy.... ... middle of paper ... ...before.
in a battle of good versus evil, where she is good and Peter Quint is
I don't know why some people calling Irene is fake. I dont think she's fake, she just shy or have timid personality, Irene is beautiful and she's bae , so please stop calling her fake.