Joe Orton essay help?
Question by thereisnoiineye: Joe Orton essay help?
Hi!
I have just been set an essay and was wandering if anyone cab aid me in this? it is based upon the text “what the butler saw” and the essay tile is called “how does orton attack normality?”
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Answer by barnie
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12/10/2011
07:40
I haven’t read this one of Orton’s plays, but would suggest the following link as a starting point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Butler_Saw_%28play%29
Do remember that wikipedia can be altered by any member of the public, so I would research further from that start point.
Good luck
12/10/2011
08:04
I don’t remember the play well, but it was one of Orton’s wittier ones.
I suppose he attacks normality (or what was thought of as such back then) by using farce, and also in the dialogue.
Farcical – the girl dressed as a boy, the boy dressed as a girl, and the doctor getting into more trouble by telling stupid lies.
Dialogue – Orton deliberately makes his characters use phrases which are ambiguous. On the one hand, innocent, but on the other very politically incorrect. An example is the line the policeman says – something about “misconducting himself with a party of schoolchildren.”
If you re-read the play and look for examples where Orton is definately taking the pee, you’ll probably find your answer.