Listening Piece Commentary, English Language and Literature Essay

My listening audition piece was inspired by the old man in Poes Tell Tale Heart, notion evil by the booster dose, but given no voice to express himself. My protagonist is an elderly use with a dark side, similar to Angela Carters in The Werewolf. To subtly reveal this hidden personality I adopted the style of Alan Bennetts monologue Playing Sandwiches where he gradually builds suspicion of the speaker, ultimately revealing the horrible truth. I created a radio monologue told from the viewpoint of an elderly lady, intended to make the listeners depend about the secrets that lie hidden behind closed doors in regular peoples lives, typic of the Gothic. The exposition of my piece introduces the lady as a kind soul Im unconsolable Miss Hawking doesnt live here anymore. I used apologetic tact Im aristocratic to encourage listeners to like the character. The nonstandard auxiliary verb was makes her speech sound essential Had herself a nice cranny too they was having a baby toget her, as does the colloquial lexis feller. The visitor is a dramatic device to allow the lady to speak her thoughts.When she talks of romance, the protagonists terminology is more like a written story than spontaneous speech, Then he held her that night, low the moon, with the stars all shinin from above. She uses discourse markers, lexis like a romance novel, and conventional romantic imagery of the moon and stars, suggesting that she has compete it over and over in her head. Because this is a monologue, the visitors presence is only implied by the protagonists speech. Instead of stage directions my protagonist says everything needed to imply the action No, no, you neednt take your shoe off . The repetition of the negative No, no and the lack of back-channeling begin to reveal her unusual side, sounding a bit too firm with her requests while covering it with a polite tone.Cumulative word deem 317From here I slowly reveal her darker side making listeners question her knowledge o f the couple, and her mental wellness the milks been in there a little too long Im afraid. To construct her mental breakdown in the line, I, I, Sorry, I dont know whats go up over me I used a false start to show her nervousness and fear, and the adjective sorry to echo her opening line. Her identity is revealed when she changes from second to first person in mid-sentence She loved you and you turned me into this.I implied that she has been tracking him since he left in a series of photographs in a locked way personifying her feelings The room wont forget. Her change in chronicle, She was pretty, for a whore You Bastard with taboo lexis unnerves the reference because it subverts expectations of how an old lady should speak. Writing this piece has crystalised the difference between spoken and written language for me in creating it I felt the need to say it out loud to ensure the voice accurately reflected the speech of an old lady. Overall I believe I did so effectively as the reg ister change at the end is quite striking.