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"Drama shows us that those who control language dictate the events of the play" Compare and contrast your chosen texts in the light of this opinion.
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Saturday, 17 May 2003 Jad Salfiti A2 English Literature "Drama shows us that those who control language dictate the events of the play" Compare and contrast your chosen texts in the light of this opinion. 'The Tempest' written by William Shakespeare and 'Translations' written by Brian Friel both look at how those who control language can dictate events. Despite the disparity of context, both plays share many core themes and explore the importance of language and how it can be used as a means of control. Both plays show linguistic hegemony, and demonstrate how one language can take dominance and displace another and how language can be stigmatised, so that it becomes dirtied and debased. In 'The Tempest', Caliban's original language is belittled to "gabble" and "babble" by a Eurocentric Miranda. While in 'Translations' Lancey's snobbish attitude to the townspeople and his use of circumlocutory beaurocratic jargon exposes his personal discomfort...
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