The role of the woman
Page. 17-'From daydreams on the road there was no waking...freeze this frame,now call down your dark and your cold and be dammed'.
The man remembers her positively from the memories he thinks about at the beginning of his journey, but wishes to freeze the frame, indicating a change in her. He wants to stop the darkness and bad memories seeping through.
Page. 54- 'The clocks stopped at 1:17....what is happening'.
The man is more astute than the woman and knows something bad is approaching when the clocks stop. He knows the water may then stop, which is why he runs a bath to collect the remaining water. Although the women is completely unaware at what is happening and doesn't understand why the man has filled the bath or is checking the light switch in order to see if the electricity is still working. The act that the man does not immediately tell the woman whats happening is because he knows that the news will effect her more than him.
Page. 56- 'He thought about the picture in the road.....you mean you wish that you were dead.'
The woman was described as the beginning as being loved by both the boy and man, even though she is dead. The man keeps a picture of his wife in his wallet and always has flash backs to her,and even calls her name in his sleep. Additionally the boy claims that he wishes he was still with his mom. The woman had a major role in the outlook the characters had on life because they missed her and wanted her back, so did that mean that they wanted to die so they could be with her, and if so, that would then effect their journey on the road.
Page.57- 'What in God's name are you talking about? We're not survivors. we're the walking dead in a horror film..The one thing i can tell you is that you won't survive for yourself.'
Page. 60- 'She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.....shes gone isn't she? And he said yes, she is.'
At this point in the play the man choices to remember the moment when the woman told him she was going to take her own life because she could not face the torment of waiting for death. She tells him to think of her as a 'faithless slut' because she wants to make if easier for him, and claims she has taken a new lover in death. The woman says that the only reason any of them were alive was because of the boy and the family the were, but she had now decided that they were not enough to keep her alive and therefore she must take her own life. The woman could be seen in two different ways in this section, because the subject of suicide in its self is a controversial topic, but also for the way she goes about explaining her reasoning to the man, and how her personality changes. The woman could be seen as weak and selfish for the fact that she believes her and the boy will get raped, eaten, and killed and she is prepared to take her on life because she doesn't want to wait for death. But the way the woman goes about it could in fact be seen as a very brave, selfless thing. The woman identifies that there are only 2 bullets left in the gun, meaning if there comes a point where they all want to die, they might not be able to because they only have 2 bullets left. She is preventing the man having to choose between the boy and herself. Additionally, an integral part of her suicide that could be seen as selfless was how she deal with and told the man what she was going to do. 'she was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift', was how the man described his wife's death, which is almost comforting to himself and the reader. She chose to make the man hate her before she died, because then once she was gone, he would not mourn as greatly for her, and the boy and man could continue on there journey. She was kind.
Page. 54- 'The clocks stopped at 1:17....what is happening'.
The man is more astute than the woman and knows something bad is approaching when the clocks stop. He knows the water may then stop, which is why he runs a bath to collect the remaining water. Although the women is completely unaware at what is happening and doesn't understand why the man has filled the bath or is checking the light switch in order to see if the electricity is still working. The act that the man does not immediately tell the woman whats happening is because he knows that the news will effect her more than him.
Page. 56- 'He thought about the picture in the road.....you mean you wish that you were dead.'
The woman was described as the beginning as being loved by both the boy and man, even though she is dead. The man keeps a picture of his wife in his wallet and always has flash backs to her,and even calls her name in his sleep. Additionally the boy claims that he wishes he was still with his mom. The woman had a major role in the outlook the characters had on life because they missed her and wanted her back, so did that mean that they wanted to die so they could be with her, and if so, that would then effect their journey on the road.
Page.57- 'What in God's name are you talking about? We're not survivors. we're the walking dead in a horror film..The one thing i can tell you is that you won't survive for yourself.'
Page. 60- 'She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.....shes gone isn't she? And he said yes, she is.'
At this point in the play the man choices to remember the moment when the woman told him she was going to take her own life because she could not face the torment of waiting for death. She tells him to think of her as a 'faithless slut' because she wants to make if easier for him, and claims she has taken a new lover in death. The woman says that the only reason any of them were alive was because of the boy and the family the were, but she had now decided that they were not enough to keep her alive and therefore she must take her own life. The woman could be seen in two different ways in this section, because the subject of suicide in its self is a controversial topic, but also for the way she goes about explaining her reasoning to the man, and how her personality changes. The woman could be seen as weak and selfish for the fact that she believes her and the boy will get raped, eaten, and killed and she is prepared to take her on life because she doesn't want to wait for death. But the way the woman goes about it could in fact be seen as a very brave, selfless thing. The woman identifies that there are only 2 bullets left in the gun, meaning if there comes a point where they all want to die, they might not be able to because they only have 2 bullets left. She is preventing the man having to choose between the boy and herself. Additionally, an integral part of her suicide that could be seen as selfless was how she deal with and told the man what she was going to do. 'she was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift', was how the man described his wife's death, which is almost comforting to himself and the reader. She chose to make the man hate her before she died, because then once she was gone, he would not mourn as greatly for her, and the boy and man could continue on there journey. She was kind.
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