A minor role mindmap
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- A Minor Role, UA Fanthorpe
- Form
- Dramatic monologue
- 1st person narrator
- 7 stanzas if uneven lengths
- Single line stanza at the end
- Some direct speech to reader
- Enjambement across some lines
- One line stanza emphasises the importance of the carer
- Listing technique emphasises the mentality of caring
- Meaning of the poem
- About a carer who describes the isolation she experiences because of her role
- About an ill person (cancer) who experiences isolation due to the medical treatment
- Fanthorpe criticises the control the medical profession has over us
- The reader sees how the illness has had a profoundly negative effect on the narrator's life
- The narrator is disillusioned with how society devalues language and doesn't care how she really is
- The narrator sees herself as subservient - she must 'sustain' the 'background music of civility'
- Language analysis
- Subseviance:'My servants patter', 'sustaining the background music of civility', 'Not the star part'
- Being minor: 'Not the star part', 'Midget moments', 'consultants' monologues'
- Rejection of her role: 'I jettison the spear, the servants tray', 'I am here to make you believe in life'
- Criticism of the medical profession: 'Consultants monologues','ceremonial delays'
- Important Themes
- Subserviance
- Power held by others over us
- The role of carers
- Isolation
- Estrangement
- Societal failures
- Form
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