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General Vision and Viewpoint

What is it. General Vision and Viewpoint. GVVP. This is the author’s view on life in the world of the text. Is what we see in the text positive or negative? Is the dominant mood optimistic or pessimistic?. How does the author communicate the GVVP?. The opening The relationships

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General Vision and Viewpoint

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  1. What is it. General Vision and Viewpoint

  2. GVVP • This is the author’s view on life in the world of the text. • Is what we see in the text positive or negative? • Is the dominant mood optimistic or pessimistic?

  3. How does the author communicate the GVVP? • The opening • The relationships • The main character’s ‘journey’. • By how s/he deals with key themes. • Poverty, love, family, hopes and dreams etc.

  4. Also…..and crucially • By closely examining the ending.

  5. What is the GVVP in each of our texts then……? • DAL The gvvp is quite dark. • There are moments of light, seen mostly in the sister’s ‘generosity of spirit and mutual affection’. But in general, the GVVP is predominantly dark and pessimistic. • Friel communicates this in the following manner….

  6. Dancing at Lughnasa • The three hopeful elements at the beginning all amount to nothing. • wireless, keeps breaking down • Fr. Jack, gone native and Kate is sacked • Gerry Evans’ visits –a superficial, shallow man full of empty promises

  7. Dancing at Lughnasa • The sisters live under the constant pressure of poverty - money, clothes for dance, food, milk/biscuits. (Rose) • The sisters fail to achieve personal romantic fulfillment. They are spinsters. • Cultural restraints – it wouldn’t be proper for women of their ‘mature’ years to go to the dance. People would talk……

  8. Dancing at Lughnasa • The ending is most important • The warm, caring family we’ve come to know during the play is fractured. • Rose and Agnes have come to a heartbreaking end – they have died, alone in a foreign country, having become down-and-outs, separated from their sisters, destitute.

  9. Dancing at Lughnasa • So, despite some positive moments in the text, the overall GVVP in DAL is predominantly dark and pessimistic. • Rose and Agnes have come to a heartbreaking end – they have died, alone in a foreign country, having become down-and-outs, separated from their sisters, destitute.

  10. GWPE • The opening section sets a sombre tone. • Father is blinded by accident at work resulting in loss of job, hardship and poverty. There are no social supports, no welfare etc. Life is harsh for the working classes. If you can’t work you starve. • Greit has no choice, it is decided for her, she must leave home to work as a maid. She is powerless. • Working class people have few choices. Women, fewer still. Greit is at the end of the social ladder. • Note her leaving. A very poignant scene..

  11. Poverty • Poverty is a constant for Greit’s family.

  12. Relationships - family • Greit and her family (2 families! Note how she becomes almost awkward as her relationship with her own family changes.) • Greit and Agnes – Agnes dies! • Greit and Franz – Franz runs away from the factory (suggestion he got bosses wife pregnant)

  13. Relationships - personal • Greit and Vermeer. • Nothing will ever come from this. He’s a complex, selfish, unsatisfied character • Greit and Peiter. He’s her best (only) option.

  14. Greit’s vulnerability • Because she’s at the bottom of the social ladder she’s at the mercy of those above her. • Van Ruyven can do as he pleases with her. Sexual assault!

  15. Greit’s vulnerability • Vermeer also takes advantage of her • She must • Go buy paint materials • Grind the powders for the paints • Pose for his painting • And make sure no-one else knows! • Oh, and do her ‘normal’ work too!

  16. The ending • This is a mixed bag • It’s ten years since Greit fled Vermeers house. • She’s married to Peiter, has a family. She’s learned to change her perspective, to ‘look inward’ to her family. But is she fulfilled? Is this what she wanted is it all she could expect.?

  17. Casablanca • Despite the backdrop of WW2, the GVVP here turns out to be quite positive. • The opening is grim and intense • Music • War footage • Dramatic voice-over Then we learn of the murdered couriers The roundup of suspects The shooting of the resistance operative The general corruption………etc

  18. “In Casablanca, life is cheap” • Ugarte is murdered in custody • Lazlo’s life is in serious danger. • The police are corrupt • Anything could happen! • Rick and Lazlo put themselves at risk for the woman they love and the cause they believe in.

  19. Ahh…but the ending….! • At the core of the gvvp, one essential message rings out…. • Good triumphs over evil. • Right wins out over wrong. • Doing the right thing brings a kind of organic wholeness. • These characters have issues and obstacles to face which have the potential to overwhelm them. • But unlike DAL, they triumph over their circumstances.

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