Model analysis of stylistic devices in an excerpt of Brian Clarke’s "Whose life is it anyway?"(p. 28‚ 10 30‚18) General remarks the conversation is held in a very witty style. Both sides think carefully about how to react and the impacts their remarks might have. Ken wants to provoke Dr Scott with sexual allusions to make her think about his situation Dr Scott tries to remain professional. She wants to avoid to hurt him. Neither does she want to end up being hurt herself. She is a position
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In the film Whose Life Is It Anyway? we are introduced to the character of Ken. Ken’s life is changed after a life-altering car accident leaves him a quadriplegic. Ken‚ being unable to live the life he is accustomed asks to be released from the hospital and refuses medical treatment. Throughout this paper I will delve into the roles that work‚ play‚ and worship played in Ken’s life both pre-accident and post-accident. The roles of work‚ play‚ and worship will also tie in with Ken’s personal freedom
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hospital. He dislikes it to a certain extent when it can be called hate. In this important scene Ken has mentioned that he doesn’t want to live on anymore with these conditions of the body‚ as he only wants to live if he can live a normal life. And a normal life would include living healthily with out the help of medical instruments. Brian Clark has made Ken use a certain amount of sarcasm and partly rhetorical questions to portray Ken to the reader as he is. The reader will most likely think that
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Brian Clarke Use Ken’s Situation To Provoke Both Sympathy And Humour In ‘Whose Life Is It Anyway?’ The book has been written by Brian Clarke not only to entertain readers‚ but to also make a statement about euthanasia. Euthanasia is defined as an ‘easy death’‚ however after reading the play ‘Whose Life Is It Anyway’‚ readers start to get an idea of what a struggle it is‚ not only to have the courage to end your own life‚ but to persuade others around you that it is the right decision‚ especially
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The play ‘Whose Life is it Anyway?’ by Brian Clark explores conflicting issues and views through the protagonist predicament. Having conflict is essential in drama. Conflict is created through disagreement of different perspectives and allows the audience to question their values in society. The three keys areas of conflict that arise in the play are the dignity of choice‚ professionalism and desire. Dignity of choice is a key conflict that is conveyed throughout the play. Ken is a paraplegic resulted
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In this essay‚ I will be describing and analysing how Ken‚ from “whose life is it anyway”‚ used persuasive techniques to persuade the judge to let him die. Ken is trying to persuade the judge to let him die‚ and he persuades him with this quote “…and I find the hospital’s persistent effort to maintain this shadow of life an indignity and its humane.” this quote is clearly showing that he does not want to rely on other people. The word “maintain” stands for holding something like an object in your
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Who’s in control of your life? Who’s pulling your strings? For the majority of us‚ it’s other people – society‚ colleagues‚ friends‚ family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young‚ of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. We didn’t want to be singled out by the crowd for being different because this wasn’t such
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family has created question on how a family who have rarely any privacy‚ could raise a child as normal as possible. The family could not even name George without approval from many others. But it brings up the question of‚ what is a “normal” upbringing anyway? If a normal upbringing is one which consists of two average paid parents‚ who live in a middle class suburban home‚ where they have two children who compete in several sports and go to an average school and grandparents who live close enough to
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or even jealousy. Departures that might have felt to previous generations like selling out or admitting defeat have become more like graduations; the people who leave New York seem not to have struck out‚ but to have gained some great insight about life‚ work‚ and happiness that’s been denied to those of us who remain. We become like those eternal graduate students
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Whose America Brittney Gregg ENG 491 Julie Miller June 30‚ 2014 Writers use what they know to make their work into something that can be treasured for years. They share what they know‚ they paint pictures with their words that allow their readers to get a glimpse of their lives and in some cases they use what is going on around them to share what they are feeling‚ or what they are not feeling. In some cases the writers use other pieces of literature or other people’s ideas to get
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