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How does Bennett use dramatic techniques to characterise his speakers in 'talking heads 2'? Talking heads is a series of monologues that are aimed for working to middle class, middle aged adults. The monologues try to make you have sympathy for the characters even if they have done something wrong. This is to show how they think and we feel more open to other people with the same problems. In 'Playing Sandwiches', Wilfred starts out as a normal, working class man that seems very nice and smart. This shows that actually, on the outside, he is a normal, well-educated person. Throughout the monologue we realise, by the use of dramatic techniques, that Wilfred has something wrong with him or that something weird is happening in his environment that he is not telling us about. My initial impressions of Wilfred start out as him being a normal, working class man. Alan Bennett achieves...

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