Re-Read Act 3

Re-read act 3 from page 75 (I think that…) to the end. How effective might an audience find this extract as an ending to the play?

Towards the end of the play we see that roles have reversed between Carol and John. In act 1, at the beginning of the play Carol goes to John for help as she find it’s difficult to understand John’s book and she is failing the course. However, implications are caused in act 3 when Carol explains to John that she wants to ban his book. ‘’We want it removed from inclusion as a representative example of the university.’’ The fact that Carol says ‘’we’’ shows that she is talking on behalf of her group and not just herself, this changes the idea of a student teacher relationship because Carol has brought it to a
All right!?’’ shows the frustration in John’s voice, it is almost as if John just wants Carol to get off his back just so he can get his head around Carol wanting to ban his book. You can see clearly that the tone in John’s voice soon changes when he says ‘’Get the fuck out of my office.’’ John has become more angered now rather than emotional with Carol’s complaint, yet Carol still seems to be a lot more confident in the way she is speaking at the beginning of the play. In act 1 John would always talk over Carol, and almost not give her chance to speak what she thought and John would over power her and dominate the conversation. But now the roles have reversed and it is John who is in the emotional position and carol is dominant in the way she speaks and this is seen in the language that is used throughout act
With words like ‘’…I…’’ and ‘’…no…’’ suggests that he still upset and in shock about the criminal charges that has been made against him, realising that there is a chance of him losing his job, his house, maybe even his family. John asks Carol to leave the room, and she replies with ‘‘Of course. I thought you knew.’’ The phone rings again, and John answers it and whilst on the phone John says to Carol to get out, yet she still stays, Carol asks John ‘’…your wife...?’’ and John asks her to leave two more times before Carol actually says ‘’I’m going.’’ And as she leaves she says ‘’and don’t call your wife ‘’baby.’’ This has taken the situation to a more personal level because Carol has involved John’s wife who should be to no concern of hers, and this has clearly angered John and the strongest power a man has over a woman is physical