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Language in Our Country's Good. Unlike in novels, in plays we do not get a direct insight into the way in which a character behaves, their temperament, their motives, their attitudes to life, their background etc, but instead we interpret all these things through language, making it one of the most key features of any play. It is through language that we as actors establish how best to play characters. Within the play Our Country's Good there are two distinct social groups. The socially higher, more educated officers and the socially lower, less educated convicts. The two groups social statuses are clearly reflected in the language used. The officers ion general posses a far more superior vocabulary to that of the convicts. This is reflected in their longer more complex utterances, for example in Act Two Scene Two. Noticeably here Phillip's language reflects his education, culture and civilised manor....

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