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I'm trying to write about how people are treated, what it means to be brutalised, what it means to live without hope, and how theatre can be a humanising force'. How helpful is this statement to your understanding of the play?
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Nilkanth Patel Critical Essay ' I'm trying to write about how people are treated, what it means to be brutalised, what it means to live without hope, and how theatre can be a humanising force'. How helpful is this statement to your understanding of the play? 'I want to rule over responsible human beings, not tyrannise over a group of animals... help me, Ralph'. This quote is taken from Captain Arthur Phillip's words and portrays how some of the characters can be errant and so are treated accordingly, or vice versa. Phillip makes a request 'I want', and being the kind hearted, noble and forgiving gentleman he is, it is sure enough expected he gets what he wants. Throughout the course of the play we, the audience, can see his wish being fulfilled in spite of some of the other officers' pessimism. It is their pessimistic and military nature that causes them to...
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