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How does Bennett develop the audience’s response to Muriel and her family in ‘Soldiering on’?  

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Literature: Twentieth Century Drama 'Soldiering On' by Alan Bennett How does Bennett develop the audience's response to Muriel and her family in 'Soldiering on'? For this piece of coursework I am going to present how Bennett develops the relationships between Muriel and her other family members. I will include how Bennett drops hints about the family and how these hints make the audience respond. At the beginning of the monologue we are introduced to Muriel and we see what her personality is like and how she looks upon her day to day life. We get the impression that although Muriel has lost her husband he has left her well off. We see in the introduction of the section that Muriel is described as a 'brisk, sensible woman' by Bennett, possibly wanting to make a point of how she was in the beginning near to when her husband died compared with how she is nearing...

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