'What Have You Found Interesting About Churchill’s Use Of Language In The Following Extract\r'

'The extract I prevail chosen to analyse is from the Methuen book, Top Girls, page 111 (When Mrs.Kidd enters) through until when she leaves towards the break of page 112.\r\nDuring this extract the earreach is exposed to dickens major differing social castes. Mrs.Kidd is a vast agate controversy to Marlene, as she is very well spoken, w hereas Marlenes language is a little less appropriate for the workplace. It is obvious that the ii characters are of differing social word formes, due to their names. Mrs.Kidd is the further individual in the play expiren a surname, and her first name is Rosemary, which illustrates a middle conformation background. Marlene, on the untoward is a name more associated with working class backgrounds, as shown in a hit video recording series c tout ensembleed, â€Å"Only Fools and Horses” in which a adult female of working class background is represented.\r\nI return that the two woman represent the two briny social groups of the nineteen eighties England, iodine a middle class housewife completely accessory of her husband and traditionalist views on ‘a womans place in society, and the other a working class life woman who has made her own way to success, without the advocate of a man, she is in Mrs.Kidds eyes anyway,\r\nâ€Å"…one of those puffiness breakers/…”\r\nMrs.Kidds intentions are unclear to Marlene until she comes straight with it, she says to Marlene,\r\nâ€Å"The fact is hes in a severalise of shock. About whats happened.”\r\nMarlene is affect and doesnt understand what she means, until she explains exactly what she means,\r\nâ€Å"Im referring to you being appointed film director instead of Howard.”\r\nMarlene replies to Howards sleeping problems with sarcasm,\r\nâ€Å"Has he thought of taking sleeping pills.”\r\nI imagine that Churchill implies that Marlene doesnt rattling portion out and that it isnt her problem. Mrs.Kidd then goes on to say that Howard deserved the job, because hed,\r\nâ€Å"…worked all these years.”\r\nExperience, however isnt as important in the raw era of work, when qualifications bear more significance on a job application than experience. Marlene refers to this as one of business ‘little setbacks. I designate that Churchill attempts to make this line into a very poignant moment, as Marlene herself had a setback in the form of her daughter, Angie, whom she gave up to her older sister, which enabled her to bounce back. I destine that the poignancy would be lost as the conversation would be acted at a furious pace and the audience wouldnt have sufficient time to react and sympathise with Marlene.\r\nMarlene takes a very professional approach to the conversation, using orchis language and keeping her cool throughout the conversation, and ensures that Mrs.Kidd lowers the tone, so that she can non be reprimanded by her senior colleagues, for dispenseing with the note in correctly.\r\nMrs.Kidd comes across as being very anti-Semite(prenominal) towards her own sex, when she says,\r\nâ€Å"Whats it going to do to him working for a woman?”\r\nThis question implies that Mrs.Kidd doesnt believe in equivalence in the workplace and a score reinforces her middle class traditionalistic views on a womans place in society.\r\nMarlenes reply is a go overled sign of her frustration at Mrs.Kidds ignorance towards the state of the modern workplace.\r\nI see that Mrs.Kidds adjoining lines show that Churchill doesnt wish to show her as an individual, however more as a part or possession of her husband, Howard.\r\nMarlene sympathises with Howard, saying that shell be tactful and pleasant, moreover for Mrs.Kidd, this isnt enough, she takes it too far by saying,\r\nâ€Å"I think it is different, because hes a man.”\r\nI think that this bold rehearsal enrages Marlene, but she manages to bottle up her emotions. I think this is also used by Churchill to display to the audience Mrs.Kidds naivety to the modern workplace. Marlene appears beleaguered in her response,\r\nâ€Å"Im not preferably sure why you came to see me.”\r\nAs she feels that Mrs.Kidd has not achieved anything positive and has merely made a target of herself and her husband. Mrs.Kidd appears to have realised that she hasnt achieved anything, and is almost giving up, when she says,\r\nâ€Å"I had to do something.”\r\nI think that Marlene attempts to sympathise with Mrs.Kidd, when she says,\r\nâ€Å"Im sinister hes taking it out on you. He really is a shit, Howard.”\r\nBecause she uses derogatory language towards him, I think she is blaming Howard and trying to tell Mrs.Kidd that it isnt her problem entirely, and that Howard needs to deal with his own problems. Mrs.Kidd then tries to deploy another weapon, turned on(p) blackmail, she says,\r\nâ€Å"But hes got a family to support.”\r\nImplying that they need the money more than Marlen e, who is a single woman. Then she suggests that Marlene gives up the job, saying,\r\nâ€Å"Its only fair.”\r\nI think this inference sends Marlene into a state of shock as she replies,\r\nâ€Å"Are you suggesting I give up the job to him then?”\r\nMrs.Kidd thinks that Marlene has finally taken heed of what she has said and that she has succeeded in her quest to gain her husband the job. Marlene becomes confrontational and has no time for Mrs.Kidd, when Mrs.Kidd says,\r\nâ€Å"Im not asking.”\r\nEven though she blatantly is, to which Marlene replies sarcastically and goes on to tell her that,\r\nâ€Å"If he doesnt like whats happening here he can go and work somewhere else.”\r\nMrs.Kidd now becomes enraged and starts hurling abuse at Marlene, but the language has no effect on Marlene, who eventually says,\r\nâ€Å"Could you please piss off.”\r\nAlthough this is abusive, I think that Churchill wants it to have the effect of displaying to the audien ce that Marlene is in control of the situation and is very calm and calculating in her response.\r\nI think that this scene bears great significance on the play as it displays Marlenes professionalism and ability to finagle with the workplace and problems. The extract also illustrates intentions of satirizing the middle class of the time and the Thatcherists, like Marlene.\r\n'