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S D M u a a n l l t n i n t y The Real Ins pector Hound Choices & Their Impact Dialogue Imagery Fourth Wall Dialogue Dueling soliloquies Birdboot and Moon converse Puns and Wordplay

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The Real Inspector Hound

S u n n y M a t t D a l l i n

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Choices & Their Impact

  • Dialogue
  • Imagery
  • Fourth Wall
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Dialogue

  • Dueling soliloquies

○ Birdboot and Moon ‘converse’

  • Puns and Wordplay

○ “Oil my gun” ○ Card game ○ Birdboot and Moon’s dialogue on stage

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Impact of Dialogue

  • Comedic effect
  • Difficulties of communication

○ Breakdown of communication

  • The absurd

○ Meaning of words can be variable ○ Multiple meanings exist

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Imagery

  • Inspector Hound’s appearance

○ Two inflated pontoons ○ Foghorn

  • Weather: Fog

○ Creates a sense of mystery ○ External Force ○ Symbolisms

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The Fourth Wall

  • Breaking the fourth wall is referencing

characters or beings outside of the story being portrayed

  • Creates a sense of absurdity within the play

○ Moon & Birdboot taking the place of characters

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Lenses

  • New Criticism
  • Archetypal
  • Reader-Response Criticism
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New Criticism

  • Concerned with the work in-and-of-itself, rather

than social and historical influences and meanings

  • The Real Inspector Hound is concerned with the

idea of absurdism, and is explored through characterization, dialogue, and the situation of a “play-within-a-play”

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Archetypal Lens

  • Concerned with universal symbols and characters
  • Imposter
  • Playa
  • Stock characters

○ Maid ○ Widow

  • Disruption of archetypes!
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Analysis and Themes

  • Built from a stock ‘who-dun-it’
  • Stoppard plays with the absurd

○ Characters ○ Repetition ○ 4th wall / Play-ception

  • Through the use of the fourth wall and stock characters,

Stoppard implies that one does not simply have just one, universal identity.

  • Stoppard highlights the absurdities and complexities of

communication through his use of repetition.

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Reader-Response Criticism

  • A literary work is converted into an activity that goes on in

a reader's mind.

  • Narrator, Plot, Characters, Style, and Structure are less

important than the connection between the reader and the text.

  • Reader-Response theorists actually think that readers are

active participants who create a work of literature in the process of reading it.

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Clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FONFHaYSVY (1:04:20ish to end)