Logged out
Access All our Essays in an Instant
Swap your work for FREE access, or pay £4.99 for instant access
With detailed reference to at least three of the monologues, discuss how the narrators may be considered ‘artless’ in Alan Bennett’s terms.
Member rating: No Rating | Words: 1573 | Submitted: Sat Jan 05 2008
Page Preview
On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:
With detailed reference to at least three of the monologues, discuss how the narrators may be considered 'artless' in Alan Bennett's terms. In the introduction to Alan Bennett's book "Talking Heads", Bennett describes the characters that he created as 'artless', meaning that they don't realise what they are saying or that they are "telling a story to the meaning of which they are not entirely privy." This is true of most of the monologues that he wrote, apart from 'A Cream Cracker under the Settee'. Within this essay I will look at three of Alan Bennett's monologues and discuss the artlessness of the characters, along with why these characters are portrayed in such a way. The first of the three monologues I have chosen is 'Lady of Letters' in which Irene, the narrator of the monologue, writes letters to pass time and results in her going to prison because of these letters....
To see the full version of this document, and 145,328 others
