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The long and the short and the tall is a play written by Willas Hall. The setting is set in the Malaysian Jungle. There are 7 soldiers fighting against the Japanese in a War
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The Long and the Short and the Tall Coursework The long and the short and the tall is a play written by Willas Hall. The setting is set in the Malaysian Jungle. There are 7 soldiers fighting against the Japanese in a War. Bamforth is a parsimonious character who has no sympathy for anyone as well as himself. He is profoundly contemptuous about the war and the British army. He always challenges the authority of the army at every opportunity with disrespectful irony, we know that Bamforth uses such enthusiasm to grab attention, because on Act 1 Bamforth unreservedly says. "You threatening me corp?" this essentially shows how he behaves and how he has an iron fist, this leads to how on Page 6 he makes long speeches which shows his supremacy. Bamforths's language explains how he has learned the regulations of the army and uses them against his superiority with nippy,...
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