Character: John (Scottish Highers English): Flashcards
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John's dual effect on audience
John's dual effect on audience
Evokes both anger (attitudes) & sympathy (powerlessness)
Cause of John's poverty & inability to provide
Cause of John's poverty & inability to provide
His unemployment
John's gesture showing love: food
John's gesture showing love: food
Shares his plate of beans with Maggie
John's gesture showing love: gift
John's gesture showing love: gift
Buys Maggie a hat at Christmas
John's failure when Bertie goes to hospital
John's failure when Bertie goes to hospital
Does not accompany Maggie
John's quote refusing domestic work
John's quote refusing domestic work
I'm no turnin masel intae a bloomin skivvy! I'm a man!
John's quote rejecting Jenny's money
John's quote rejecting Jenny's money
We're wantin nane o yer whore's winnins here
John's claim to household authority
John's claim to household authority
the heid of this hoose
John's three humiliations at play's end
John's three humiliations at play's end
Sexual exposure, financial truth, loss of control
John's final state in Act III
John's final state in Act III
Slumped and speechless - passive spectator