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The Long and the Short and the Tall  

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The Long and the Short and the Tall During this play there are dramatic techniques used by Willis Hall to present the moral dilemma faced by the British soldiers during the drama. Willis Hall prompts us to think about the rights and wrongs of war and the death of the Japanese prisoner. He does this in more ways than one but I'm going to focus on one point exactly: the point in which he constructs a scenario in which the Japanese prisoner has British cigarettes on him; this has to be one of the most dramatic scenes within the play and it covers all of the soldiers views on the prisoner. This whole situation is set during World War 2 in the Malayan jungle over a period of a couple of hours this is relevant to all wars and conflict: if one thing hasn't changed over the years it's...

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