Nab essay: Alan Bennett Talking Heads.
In Bennett's monologues the main character faces an important decision which will affect the course of their lives. I will go on and explain in this essay, the play writer's use of literary techniques - including setting, theme and characterisation- which may make the decision seem correct or not. Talking Heads was originally produced for BBC television but has recently been used as a collection of short stories. Each of the characters portrayed, is played by an actress that has been previously associated with Alan Bennett e.g.:Thora Hird who plays Doris worked on a BBC Radio 4 programme - Deadringers .It is safe to say that Alan Bennett tailored some of the material, to suit the actors, own individual style of acting. .
Each literal technique plays its own vital part of the story and to begin with I am going to look at how setting takes shape in the plays. Most of Bennett's work is focused primarily in the North of England, mainly Yorkshire, partly because that is where he grew up and a Northern perceptive is shown throughout the monologues. While Bennett's "Englishness" and "Northerness" (terms by no means synonymous) are evident to see, they are no more nationalistic nor restricting." .
But at a closer view, the three stories I am studying are set mainly in a few areas- A Chip in the Sugar is quite spread out over a distance(Lancashire, Durham and Yorkshire), whereas "A lady of Letters" and "A Cream Cracker" are set in the house of the persona. Setting greatly influences the characters behaviour and attitude, because they are Northerners, they are very traditional people who are stuck in their ways, and of course this opens the North- South Divide argument. We British (particularly the English) do not like change, which is shown from Oliver Cromwell right up to the modern day, whenever a change is suggested; it is controversial whether it is the Euro or changing the name of Coco pops to "Choco" flakes.
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