Heroin Lies

This essay will analyse the first scene of Wayne Denfhy’s “Heroin Lies” and comment upon how different techniques are used to convey the role, relationship and situation within the piece. Human context will be the focus of this analysis on vicky’s parents, David and Jean.
David and Jean are the first characters mentioned in the scene. They have a husband and wife relationship with David having the natural dominant/husband status. They also appear to be distant from each other, due to their lines not being directed at any one or thing. This creates a grave mood between the two characters. The language they use gives the impression that they are in denial about Vicky being in hospital due to drugs. This is used as a sort of “building block” for the scene because it can tell the storyline on its own by the mean that they use indirect language and the pauses during each of their lines/ monologues. This helps give the scene meaning and structure.
guilty” and David then replies to her with “ guilt, don’t talk to me about guilt” and with that the audience then realises they are Knowledgeable of each other’s presence and are in a way, communicating with one another.
The opening of the first scene has the use of symbolism, in the way the heart beat is a symbol of time ticking past and the anticipation of the out come from the heart breaking situation. This is a demonstration of tension of mystery and used to capture the attention of the